Risk Management
      Methods and Tools

BASELINE PLANNING

What Is It

Baseline planning method develops mitigation plans or strategies across sets of related risks. These sets are identified during Baseline Identification and Analysis. Baseline planning is performed effectively through a series of group planning and follow-on integration sessions to deal with the sets of risks. Risks dealt here are those for which a task plan is required for mitigation, not sets of risks which can be accepted or watched at the time.

When To Use

Use this method
  • Shortly after baseline identification and analysis, or after establishing and analyzing a baseline set of risks.
  • To deal with multiple sets of risks. Use Problem-Solving Planning to deal with a single risk or single set of risks to develop a detailed plan for mitigation.
  • To address a relatively important set of risks where the solution is not so obvious.
  • With Interrelationship Digraph to determine which risk areas need to be dealt with first.

Benefits

This method
  • Builds a team effort on developing an effective integrated risk mitigation plan for important risks in a short period of time.
  • Maximizes opportunity and value while minimizing risk impacts and cost.