11.6 Implement Risk Responses

Description: the process of implementing agreed-upon risk response plans.

Key benefit: it ensures that agreed-upon risk responses are executed as planned in order to address overall project risk exposure, minimize individual project threats, and maximize individual project opportunities.

Frequency: throughout the project.

Process / Asset Group	Input	The Process	Output	Process / Asset Group
Project Management Plan	Risk management plan	11.6 Implement Risk Responses	Change requests	4.6 Perform Integrated Change Control
Project Documents	Lesson learned register		Lesson learned register	Project Documents
	Risk register		Issue log
	Risk report		Project team assignment
Enterprise / Organization	Organizational process assets		Risk register
			Risk report

11.6.1 Inputs

11.6.1.1 Project Management Plan

The risk management plan

• Lists the roles and responsibilities of project team members and other stakeholders for risk management.
• Defines the level of detail for the risk management methodology for the project.
• Specifies risk thresholds for the project based on the risk appetite of key stakeholders, which define the acceptable target that the implementation of risk responses is required to achieve.

11.6.1.2 Project Documents

• Lesson learned register.
• Risk register. Records the agreed-upon risk responses for each individual risk and the nominated owners for each response plan.
• Risk report. Includes
  • An assessment of the current overall project risk exposure,
  • The agreed-upon risk response strategy.
  • Describes the major individual project risks with their planned responses.

11.6.1.3 Organizational Process Assets

The lessons learned repository.

11.6.2 Tools and Techniques

11.6.2.1 Expert Judgement

To validate or modify risk responses if necessary, and decide how to implement them in the most efficient and effective manner.

11.6.2.2 Interpersonal and Team Skills

Influencing.

11.6.2.3 Project Management Informational System (PMIS)

11.6.3 Outputs

11.6.3.1 Change Requests

11.6.3.2 Project Documents Updates

• Issue log.
• Lesson learned register. Updated with information on challenges encountered when implementing risk responses and how they could have been avoided, as well as approaches that worked well for implementing risk responses.
• Project team assignments.
• Risk register. Updated to reflect any changes to the previously agreed-upon risk responses for individual project risks that are subsequently made as a result of the Implement Risk Responses process.
• Risk report. 

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