Risk Information Form

Instructions for Completing a Risk Information Form

The Risk Information Sheet is used to identify and analyze risks associated with a software project.

[1] Risk Origin: Who identified risk.

[2] Risk ID: Unique identifier.

[3] Risk Statement: Initial summary of risk.

[4] Priority: High, medium, low assigned by the project software manager.

[5] Impact: List potential products and schedules that would be impacted.

[6] Probability: Likelihood of risk occurring [high, medium, low].

[7] Date Identified: Self-explanatory.

[8] Assigned To: Individual examining risk and recommending its mitigation.

[9] Context: Summarize the circumstances, environment, resources, and other issues affecting the risk.

[10] Mitigation Strategy: Proposed actions to eliminate, ease, or prevent risk.

[11] Status/Date: Status of risk in terms of change in probability of key events or a change in the potential impact.

[12] Contingency Plan Identify the events that will indicate if the risk has materialized (this And Trigger (this may reference software metrics, schedules, project-level changes, etc.)

[13] Closing Date: Date risk closed.