Joan is a project management consultant and she has been hired by a firm to help them identify risk events within the project. Joan would first like to examine the project documents including the…

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Options

• ALack of consistency between the plans and the project requirements and assumptions can
• BThe project documents will help the project manager, or Joan, to identify what risk
• CPlans that have loose definitions of terms and disconnected approaches will revealrisks.
• DPoorly written requirements will reveal inconsistencies in the project plans and documents.

• A
  94% (16)
• B
  6% (1)

Explanation

During document reviews for risk identification, the primary indicator of risk is a lack of consistency between the project plans and the stated project requirements and assumptions. When the plans do not align with requirements, or when assumptions are contradictory or unrealistic, it signals potential risk areas where the project could deviate from its intended outcomes. This is the standard PMI guidance for documentation reviews as a risk identification technique. The other options describe contributing factors (poorly written requirements, loose definitions), but they are consequences of or secondary to the foundational issue of plan-requirement-assumption inconsistency, making A the most complete and accurate answer.

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