A project team working on a large software deployment project for a few months has been able to prevent a technical risk from occurring. However, an incident took place and triggered the technical iss

A risk response plan was already developed and approved for this technical risk during planning; executing this pre-defined plan is the appropriate response when the risk event occurs, ensuring the team follows documented and agreed-upon procedures rather than improvising under pressure. Executing the plan promptly minimizes further impact and keeps the response controlled and traceable.

Postponing the launch is a business decision that may or may not be specified within the response plan, but deciding it ad hoc outside the established risk response process bypasses the approved approach.

Assessing impacts and defining new response actions with SMEs is appropriate when no response plan exists; since a plan is already in place, this causes unnecessary delay in controlling the risk.

Revisiting the project schedule with the project manager is a downstream activity that may follow response execution, but it is not the immediate first step when a risk event has already been triggered.