Collegiate Sports Paging System
Risk List
Version 3.0
Revision History
|
Date |
Version |
Description |
Author |
| October 4, 1999 | 1.0 | Initial version | Context Integration |
| October 26, 1999 | 2.0 | Updated at end of Inception phase. Interoperability risk is gone, capability risk remains high. | Context Integration |
| November 20, 1999 | 3.0 | Updated at end of Elaboration - risks unchanged. | Context Integration |
Table of Contents
Topics
Introduction
Purpose
This document describes the risks known to the Collegiate Sports Paging System project.
Scope
This risk lists addresses the entire Collegiate Sports Paging System project.
Definitions, Acronyms and Abbreviations
See Glossary document.
References
- CSPS Glossary 1.0.doc
Overview
The risks known at the publication date of this document are listed below, along with mitigation strategies for each risk.
Risks
Technical Risk : Capacity and Capability
Risk Magnitude
Most Damaging
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
Scheduling Risk: Deployment of System Delayed Beyond March, 2000
Risk Magnitude
Most Damaging
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.
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