Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC)

Risk Workshop Guidelines

What are the objectives of today’s Risk workshop

With this workshop, we aim… For…

…leveraging
knowledge &
…identifying risks that
expertise of project may affect projects
team in risks
identification

…facilitating innovative …assessing risks

based on their
and provocative occurrence probability
thinking and potential impact

…ensuring
…developing potential
collaborative
risk mitigating actions
teamwork

Source: A.T. Kearney A.T. Kearney XX/ID 2

Identification of risks and mitigation actions will be a
cooperative effort
We will do it 3 times We will do it 1 time We will do it 1 time We will do it 1 time

~25 minutes1 ~15 minutes1 ~15 minutes1 ~30 minutes1

Risk identification Regrouping Voting Mitigating actions

A
Engineering Cost Time … Risk
impact impact impact probability Top impact &
Z probability risks

E A F G
A F A F L M L 50% A F

Procurement
F G G H VH H 20% G
Y
Z Y Z Y Z Y VH H H 10%
M C
M Construction

X M X M C L H H 30%
M X Mitigating
actions
• Attendees • All risks are put on • Attendees are grouped into • Attendees vote on ‘schedule impact’, • Attendees discuss risk
imagine potential associated flipchart three to assign each group ‘scope impact’ and ‘risk probability’ mitigating actions for top
risks & drivers a flipchart for each risk impact & probability risks
and write on
‘Post it notes’ • All risks are grouped
according to similarities

1. Guideline times – depending on amount of input the time may vary A.T. Kearney XX/ID 3
Guidelines for ‘exercises’

▪ Be innovative and provocative

▪ Think of anything that can happen during the project
▪ There are no ‘unlikely’ or ‘ridiculous’ risks!!!
▪ Please put one idea per post-it note
▪ Write legibly
▪ Work quietly in the idea generation / posting phase
▪ Be as specific as possible and provide risk drivers
e.g. not “Potential problems in project communication”,
but “Communication problems that may stem from
unclarity in roles and responsibilities”

A.T. Kearney XX/ID 4