During a brainstorming session, a stakeholder identifies a risk that, if realized, could greatly impact their team. The stakeholder insists that this particular risk should be mitigated to the greates

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Options

• AAccept the identified risk because other stakeholders feel that there are higher priority risks to
• BMitigate the identified risk in order to reduce the probability of impacting the stakeholder's team.
• CEscalate the identified risk to the project sponsor and allow them to determine the best course of
• DAdd the identified risk to the risk register for future probability and impact analysis.

• A
  4% (1)
• B
  12% (3)
• C
  4% (1)
• D
  80% (20)

Explanation

When a risk is identified during a brainstorming session, the correct process-driven action is to add it to the risk register for formal probability and impact analysis (D). No risk should be dismissed, mitigated, or accepted without proper analysis first. The disagreement between stakeholders about priority is precisely why formal analysis exists-the register captures all identified risks, then quantitative and qualitative analysis determines where it actually falls in priority. Immediately mitigating (B) without analysis wastes resources. Accepting (A) without analysis ignores due diligence. Escalating to the sponsor (C) is premature before the risk has been formally evaluated.

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