Risk Mitigation - What's Your Score? – Juniper Publishers
Risk Mitigation - What's
Your Score? By Philip Crosby in Engineering Technology Open Access Journal in Juniper
Publishers
This article examines
conventional methods for risk identification and risk scoring using 'look-up' tables
and concludes that such methods are inherently flawed and offer false
confidence in project management. The author suggests a series of searching
questions to test the efficacy of traditional risk assessment in order to
better prepare the project for review. Important further considerations are
posed in relation to nonspecific, irrational risk exposure (i.e. Black Swans),
and the author presents two approaches for improved preparedness against
undefined risk.
Ask about risk management
in almost any complex project, and you're likely to be presented with some form
of table listing various risks, often ranked by severity, with many of the
highest risk exposures “mitigated” by control measures and demoted to safer
(non-red!) scores. These conventional style risk plans, underpinned by
likelihood and consequence ratings derived from coloured look-up tables,
certainly give the impression of a scientific treatment of project risk.
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