A project manager is working on a high priority and high profile project. The project team had identified three opportunities, and after analysis, risk responses were recorded. Although risk responses

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Options

• AProvided regular training to the risk owners for plan implementation
• BDetermined risk triggers and thresholds in the risk response plan
• CIncreased communications to influence stakeholder risk responses
• DUpdated the project schedule, adding risk owner implementation tasks.

• A
  6% (2)
• B
  9% (3)
• C
  15% (5)
• D
  70% (23)

Explanation

The root cause of risk responses not being implemented is a lack of accountability and visibility within the project schedule. When risk response actions are not added as explicit tasks in the project schedule with assigned owners and deadlines, they are easy to overlook or deprioritize. By adding risk owner implementation tasks directly into the project schedule (D), those actions become tracked deliverables subject to the same monitoring and control as any other project activity. This creates accountability and ensures responses are executed on time. Communication and training alone (A, C) do not create the structured accountability that a schedule entry provides.

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