Risk Management

Download Free IT Project Risk Management Checklist Template:

Schedule creation
- Schedule, resources, and product definition have all been dictated by the customer or upper management and are not in balance.
- Schedule is optimistic, ‘best case’, rather than realistic, ‘expected case’.
- Schedule omits necessary tasks.
- Schedule was based on the use of specific team members, but those team members were not available.
- Cannot build a product of the size specified in the time allocated.
- Product is larger than estimated (in lines of code, function points, or percentage of previous project’s size).
- Effort is greater than estimated (per line of code, function point, module, etc.).
- Re-estimation in response to schedule slips is overly optimistic or ignores project history.
- Excessive schedule pressure reduces productivity.
- Target date is moved up with no corresponding adjustment to the product scope or available resources.
- A delay in one task causes cascading delays in dependent tasks.
- Unfamiliar areas of the product take more time than expected to design and implement.

Download Free IT Service Level Agreement Risk Analysis Template

1. RISK: SERVICE FAILURES.
a. Service level requirements (with associated liquidated damages in the event of a failure to meet such service level requirements and the right to terminate if the liquidated damages exceed certain amounts)
b. Critical milestone requirements for the data center migrations/project implementations

Download Free IT Outsourcing Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Provisions Checklist

1. What is a COLA provision? (A provision that calls for an adjustment to the fees to reflect inflation)

2. At what point during the term of the Agreement will COLA apply?
- Is any inflation built into the fees?
- To what extent should the vendor be managing inflation?

Download free IT Organization Audit Guidelines free download. This audit guidelines used to assess the IT function within a company, whether the policies and procedures already established or not.

Download free IT Risk Management Template. This IT Risk Management Template consist of three parts:
1. Business Unit Assessment
2. Risk Analysis
3. Critical Process Assessment