2. Risk avoidance

The avoidance strategy presents the accepted and assumed risks and consequences of a project and presents opportunities for avoiding those accepted risks. Some methods of implementing the avoidance strategy is to plan for risk and then to take steps to avoid it. For example, to mitigate risk on new product production, a project team may decide to implement product testing to avoid the risk of product failure before final production is approved. And this can be performed in these two ways.

• Risk to performance

Mitigation of performance risks, such as inadequate resources to carry out the work, insufficient design or poor team dynamics, can let a project team recognize possible methods to steer clear of these types of risk circumstances that may cause issues with project performance. For example, a production team might test more robust product resources to evade the risk of product fiasco with less durable resources.

• Risk to schedule

Circumvention of schedule implications can be executed by recognizing issues that could arise, affecting the timeline of the project. Vital deadlines, due dates and final delivery dates can be impacted by risks, such as being excessively hopeful about the timeline of a project. The avoidance approach can help the project team strategize ways to avoid schedule conflicts. And this can be done by creating a managed schedule that demonstrates specific time allowances for planning, designing, and making changes as needed.

3. Controlling risk

Teammates are also likely to enforce a control strategy when reducing risks to a project. This strategy works by considering risks recognized and accepted and then taking actions to decrease or remove the effects of these risks. The following examples highlight how control methods can be implemented for risk mitigation.

4. Transference of risk

When risks are identified and taken into account, mitigating the consequences through transference can be a viable strategy. The transference strategy works by transferring the strain of the risk and consequences to another party. This can present its own downsides, though, and when an organization enforces this risk mitigation strategy, it should be in a way that is acceptable to everybody involved.

5. Monitoring risk

Supervising projects for risks and consequences involves watching for and recognizing any changes that can affect the impact of the risk. Production teams might use this approach as part of a standard project appraisal plan. Cost, scheduling and performance or output are all features of a project that can be supervised for risks that may emerge during completion of a project. For example, a finance team or budget committee can assess and review risks to cost by generating a reporting routine to outline each expense of the company. This approach works by letting teams constantly measure the budget and change any cost plans accordingly.