CSPS Risk List

Collegiate Sports Paging System

Risk List

Version 1.0

Revision History

Date	Version	Description	Author
October 4, 1999	1.0	Initial version	Context Integration

Table of Contents

This document describes the risks known to the Collegiate Sports Paging System project.

This risk lists addresses the entire Collegiate Sports Paging System project.

See Glossary document.

None.

The risks known at the publication date of this document are listed below, along with mitigation strategies for each risk.

Description: Areas of risk include the inability to deliver a solution that meets capacity requirements or to issue a page to a paging device. While the technology to provide such capability exists, the ability to send as many as 500,000 pages within 5 minutes will need to be proven.
Impacts: System not functional, probably resulting in loss of subscribers.
Indicators: Failed or delayed delivery of messages within established time frame of 5 minutes.
Mitigation Strategy: Context has provided similar pager capability for other projects, therefore this area of technical risk is relatively low. Context Integration must provide an estimate of time required to process and push information to subscribers based on average and maximum projected workloads, which are currently 200,000 to 500,000 subscribers. Context Integration will develop a scalable system. will provide hardware resources necessary to meet processing requirements. Context can not guarantee the ability of each paging gateway service to deliver service levels within the desired specifications.
Contingency Plan: Attempt to locate a service that can, at peak processing time, accept and send up to 500,000 page requests.

Description: WebNewsOnline's failure to deploy its system within the established schedule is considered by the management as failure and can result in cancellation of the project.
Impacts: Project will be cancelled.
Indicators: Failure to deploy before March, 2000.
Mitigation strategy: The project timeline must be carefully calculated and, if time-constrained, the deliverable schedule shall drive the reduction of scope or scale (as an example, WebNewsOnLine may elect not to implement some of the defined functionality in the first release in order to achieve the target delivery date).
Contingency plan: None.

Risk Magnitude: Low
Description: WebNewsOnline's existing web site is IIS-based; it will be necessary to provide a means of immediately capturing each newly published article and transferring it to the for parsing and evaluation of targeted subscribers.
Impacts: The amount of coding to provide interfaces could increase.
Mitigation Strategy: Context Integration will need to work with the technical staff to determine the level of integration that is available with the existing content editing system.
Contingency plan: Develop an NT-based process that detects newly published IIS-resident documents and transfers them to the server.

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