Lesson 2: Create a risk action

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In the last lesson, you defined a risk. Now, you will create a Risk Action work item in which you can track your efforts to use a strategy to counter the risk.

About this task

After you complete this lesson, you will know how to create a Risk Action work item and what type of strategy to use to counter a risk. Mitigation strategies describe the tasks that you can do now to prevent problems that are related to risks. Contingency plans describe the tasks to do when a risk occurs. Avoidance strategies describe not doing a task because it might cause risks. In this lesson, to prevent the risk of having a user interface that is not intuitive, you add a mitigation strategy to create a user interface guide.
Tip: You can create a risk action in the web or Eclipse clients. For more information about creating risk action in the Eclipse client, see Create risk action
Remember:

This feature is available only if you are using the Formal Project Management process template.

Procedure

  1. Click the Work Items menu. From the Create work item section, click Risk Action.
  2. In the Summary field, type Create a user interface guide in the documentation.
  3. In the Strategy Type field, make sure that Mitigation Strategy is selected.
    By default, some strategies are defined as enumerations for the process template. You can define new enumerations in the project area editor.
  4. Enter the other information about the risk action, and click Save.

Lesson checkpoint

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In this lesson, you learned to create a risk action by selecting a mitigation strategy.