Organizational Leadership 421

Risk Register

Project ID: 00003 Project Name: Tyrell Corp Web Rebuild

Business Analyst(s): Shana Slagle Project Manager(s): Shana Slagle

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Risk Awareness Description / Action ct Mitigation Resolution
Risk / Impact Owner Priority Status
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1 Communication 2/5/21 Shana Slagle, If in-house team High Project Fair The project Active 3/2/21
Breakdown Project Manager members at Tyrell Manager, Tyrell manager should
Corporation are not Corporation have contact
keeping up with outside Spokesperson, information for
team members and Content several
project management staff, Writers, Coders employees and
a full breakdown of team members at
communication may Tyrell Corporation
result which can threaten so that someone
the schedule and overall can always be
success of the website reached if the
redesign project. preferred point of
Communication may contact is
suffer if one side fails to unavailable or
respond to a question or unresponsive. A
request made by the meeting and
other side. communication
Misunderstandings can schedule should
also cause be created before
communication work begins so
breakdowns. that there are
pre-set,
designated times
when status
checks can be
done on the
project progress.
The project
manager should
 frequently check
in with various
team members to
address new
concerns and
help solve
problems that
may inhibit
communication or
project work.

Stick to the
original scope
plan and work
diligently. Ensure
that each team
member knows
they can ask for
help if they fall
The schedule can be
behind. Hold
threatened if work is
regular status
taking longer than
meetings to
anticipated due to either
discuss progress
avoidable or unavoidable
Project and find solutions
circumstances. Adding
Manager, Web to delays as they
extra features or content
Designer, occur. Take
that was not approved in
Coders, necessary
the original scope
Schedule Shana Slagle, Website precautions to
2 1/29/21 document can cause too High Fair Active 3/2/21
Overrun Project Manager Testers, avoid losing staff
much time to be spent on
Content members to
certain project phases.
Writers, illness during the
Losing a staff member
Marketing project and
during the project life
Personnel consider adding
cycle can cause us to fall
vacation blackout
behind. Unexpected
dates during the
equipment failure or an
3-month
act of nature can threaten
schedule. Be
a deadline as well.
prepared to
authorize
overtime or add
additional team
members to finish
work by the
agreed upon
deadline.

3 Budget Overrun 1/29/21 Shana Slagle, This is likely to occur if Medium Project Fair Set a realistic Active 3/2/21
Project Manager equipment breaks or the Manager, budget at the
team falls behind Project beginning of the
 project and work
within it. Make
assessments of
equipment and
resource
conditions and try
schedule. New
to anticipate any
equipment or supplies
expenditures that
may need to be
may arise in
purchased that were not
those areas.
included in initial cost
Estimate person
estimates. Overtime can
hours and
add up if additional hours Sponsor,
number of staff
are needed for project Accounting
needed to
team members. Bringing
complete the
on additional staff when
project work and
the schedule is severely
add a cushion.
threatened will also cost
For purchasing
extra and lead to budget
necessary
concerns.
supplies and
materials, find
best prices by
researching and
contacting
various vendors.

To the extent
possible, new
code should be
tested before
The Tyrell Corporation being added to
website may malfunction the live web
and become unusable environment.
during the updating and Bugs should be
maintenance processes. caught and
Web Designer,
Users may be unable to eliminated before
Shana Slagle, Coders,
4 Website Crash 1/29/21 view account or product Medium Good they are able to Inactive 3/2/21
Project Manager Website
info, or experience delays threaten the
Testers
in making purchases. performance of
The website may become the website. Web
inaccessible altogether designers,
while new content and coders, and
code is being added. testers can work
together to
prevent website
functionality
interference.

5 Security Breach 1/29/21 Shana Slagle, One of the greatest High Coders, Web Good Consult with web Inactive 3/2/21
 threats in a software
project is the mishandling
of sensitive customer security
information. Changes to personnel to
the website features and identify potential
code could compromise weaknesses in
the security measures put the Tyrell
in place in the past to Corporation
protect Tyrell website as it
Corporation’s customers currently exists
and clients. Failure to and make
prioritize security issues projections about
when determining the weaknesses that
Security Expert,
scope of the project and may be created in
Web Designer,
Project Manager changes and updates to the process of
Website
be made to the company adding new
Testers
website could lead to a content, design
hacker gaining access to features, and
customer financial and code. Come up
demographic information with a plan for
that they do not wish to testing website
have made public or to security and
be used by unauthorized ensure that
parties. Ramifications of customer data is
a security breach can be properly
great and include loss of encrypted and
customers, legal trouble, protected.
and a tarnished company
reputation.

6 Scope Creep 1/29/21 Shana Slagle, This will threaten the strict High Project Good Do not allow Inactive 3/2/21
Project Manager 3-month schedule allotted Manager, additions to the
for the project. Scope Content originally adopted
creep will occur if Writers, project scope.
someone from Tyrell Coders, Tyrell Ensure that each
Corporation or a member Corporation team member
of the project team Employees and Tyrell
decides to add additional Corporation
features or pages to the employee is
website that were not aware that
discussed and approved changes and
as part of the project additions will not
scope. This can easily be made during
occur during content this iteration of
writing and web coding. the website re-
Changes and additions design project.
may seem fast and Inform employees
simple in theory but can that changes and
cause significant damage additions must be
 to the project scope and made part of a
schedule when they separate project
become numerous. in the future.

Work with web

designer and
coders before
sets of code are
combined to
identify potential
issues that would
cause website
downtime. List
possible solutions
May arise from customers to minimize
being unaware of downtime if it
possible website does occur.
downtime during the Before beginning
redesign and update Project major redesign
process. Combining old Manager, efforts, create a
Dissatisfied Shana Slagle, and new code behind the Coders, banner to appear
7 1/29/21 Low Good Inactive 3/2/21
Customers Project Manager scenes can cause Customer at the top of each
disruptions in website Service Tyrell Corporation
functionality which could Personnel website page that
prevent customers from alerts customers
completing online to the project so
purchases or working in that they are not
their accounts. caught off guard.
Add more
customer support
personnel while
the new code is
being
implemented so
that customer
questions and
concerns can be
addressed

8 Lost 1/29/21 Shana Slagle, This can occur if Low Tyrell Good Offer incentives Inactive 3/2/21
Competitive Project Manager customers decide to shop Corporation to customers
Advantage` elsewhere while Tyrell Product and which prompt
Corporation is making Marketing them to remain
updates and changes to Personnel loyal to Tyrell
its website. Since the Corporation.
company is launching Consider special
their new product during introductory
this update and redesign pricing for the
endeavor, other new product or
 offer a loyalty
incentive. Also,
collaborate with
content writers,
companies with similar
web designer,
products and better
and coders often
websites may take sales.
to ensure that the
website update is
carried out swiftly
and smoothly.