The major risk identification
effort occurs during planning
The RBS will make it easier
Information Gathering
Techniques
Brainstorming
Annotations:
Always needs a facilitator to lead the team
Interviews
Annotations:
The sponsor or client will have a different opinion than the project team
Delphi technique
Annotations:
Is always anonymous, you will get more honest opinions.
Root cause
specifications
Documentation reviews
Assumption analysis
Annotations:
Every assumption could turn out to be wrong
Checklist analysis
RBS
Talk with certain
people
Review documents
you may have
overlooked
SWOT Analysis
Annotations:
You’ll start by brainstorming
strengths and weaknesses, and
then examine the strengths to
find opportunities, and you’ll
look at the weaknesses to come
up with threats to the project.