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Use this tag for questions about the recording, management and mitigation of project risk related to budget, schedule etc.

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Public risk taxonomies/lists?

If you're looking for risks, look at risk registers from previous projects. Those should be more relevant and accurate to whatever you're working on in your company. …
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Risk Register is a public document in a project?

The easiest solution to this is to keep two risk registers: One contains those risks that may be damaging and should be kept to only the few people who need to see them (like senior management), and everything … This also forces you to think twice if you add a risk to your confidential register; does it really need to go there? Most risks won't need to, but a few will. …
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How many risks normally stay in your hot list?

I primarily apply risk management on small-scale software projects. On these, I try to have at least 10-20 risks in total (including risks like "top person X gets hit by a truck"). …
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What's the best definition and explanation of project risk?

I would define risk as any uncertain event that may or may not happen, that will impact your project. (This is pretty much the PMI definition.) This may mean that risks are within your control. … For example, on a software development project, one risk might be that the programmers don't finish the project on time. …
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