Risk Management (meetings)

crushPMP's picture

Since you know the importance of risk management, you always include it as an agenda item in your weekly status meetings and spend ten minutes discussing the risks. Some of your project team members complain that since none of the risks are actually happening, discussing risk management issues in status meetings is a waste of time. What should you do?


 
 
  Choice 1  Talk to your team members about the importance of risk management and why the project team needs to be aware of all risks at all points of time. 
 
  Choice 2  Agree with your team members and mention to them that henceforth, no more time would be spent on discussing risks in the project status meetings unless required in the future. 
 
  Choice 3  Call a meeting with your project sponsor and project management team to discuss potential training requirements for your project team members so that they can appreciate the benefits of risk management. 
 
  Choice 4  Escalate to your management that some of your team members do not agree with your risk management practices. 
 

Is it Choice 1?

Choice 2, as you need to tailor risk management to your project.  If you notice that risks are not occurring, maybe toning down the discussing of risks at every meeting to every other meeting makes sense.

Yes now I look back on it, I think it's Choice 2 as it does make more sense, since there are no risks occurring.

 OPTION-1?

crushPMP's picture

Corret ans is 2.

So yea - Every project management books talks about how risk is so important and how we should discuss risk in every status meeting and all that bla bla.. but the moment a team member comes up to project manager and tells risk is a WASTE of time, and we could have finished the meeting by 5 instead of 6 PM, if we stop talking about risk in every status meeting (and also I get to catch the earlier train back home) and the manager agrees to him. yea, right! Ans if 2.

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