Assess Risks

The purpose of Assess Risks is to understand the consequences to the enterprise as a result of a transition to the future state. An understanding of the potential impact of those risks can be used to make a recommendation about a course of risk mitigation.

Guidelines/Tools and Techniques

The guidelines/tools and techniques used to create risk analysis results.

  • Assess Risks - Uses Brainstorming, Workshops, Survey or Questionnaire, Root Cause Analysis, Mind Mapping, Risk Analysis and Management, Business Case, Decision Analysis, Document Analysis, Financial Analysis, Lessons Learned and Interviews as techniques to create a Risk Analysis Result:

  • Risk Analysis Results – Are created using the Current State Description, Business Analysis Approach, Business Policy, Stakeholder Engagement Approach, Change Strategy, Future State Description and Identified Risk as tools and guidelines.

The relationships between these guidelines, tools, techniques and Requirements, are detailed in the BABOK under the Guidelines and Tools and Techniques sections of the Assess Risks task.

Workers

The people involved with performing the Assess Risks task.

The relationships between these roles and Risk Analysis Results, are detailed in the BABOK under the Stakeholders section of Assess Risks task.