BRM Tool

Delivery Risk

Source Of Risk	Type	Description & Guidelines	Active
Government or legislative influence		Probability or impact of government or legislative changes affecting project objectives (Low impact / medium impact / high impact)
Interdependence with other company initiatives		Degree that this project relies on, conflicts with, or is required by another critical company initiative or project (Low / Medium / High)
Requirements conflicts from customers		All customers have same requirements (same needs/ different but not conflicting needs/ conflicting needs)
Customer decision makers		Number of customer decision makers involved in project (1 – 3/ 4 – 6/ more than 6)
User Expectations for Product		Level of expectations from users on product capabilities (no pre-defined expectations for the product/ some experience with alternative products and some expectations of capabilities/ users have good experience with competitive existing solution and defined expectations
Magnitude of change to customer		Changes work flow of customer organization (none/ minorly/ significantly)
Business process understanding		Level of business process understanding (current process is well documented/ process documentation is out of date or vague/ process is undocumented)
Project objectives		Objectives are defined, verifiable and measurable (specific and reasonable/ defined but questionable/ none or not measurable)
Rollout complexity		Complexity of project rollout (implemented only at single site/ several sites in relative proximity/ multiple sites across country or world)
System dependencies		Whole system is clearly represented (clearly defined and documented dependencies/ some parts clear, others not yet examined/ no clear plan for how the whole system comes together)
Data migration		Data migration from old/ other systems (little or none/ lots of data to migrate, but well structured and documented/ lots of data with little understanding of structure)
External hardware interfaces		External interfaces required (little or no integration with external hardware/ some integration needed/ extensive interfaces required)
External software interfaces		External interfaces required (little or no integration with external software/ some integration needed/ extensive interfaces required)
Project size and complexity		Size of project (small, not complex, easily decomposed/ medium, some complexity, decomposable/ large, highly complex, not decomposable)
Technology maturity		Maturity of technology within industry (technology has been in use for some time/ technology is well understood/ technology is ‘leading edge’)
Influence of executives on vendor selection		How much influence do the executives or sponsor(s) have in vendor selection (no written or verbal support for any specific supplier/ some written or verbal comments favouring a specific supplier/ written or verbal mandate for purchasing from a specific su