From the course: Project Management Foundations: Risk

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Challenge: Technology deployment

Challenge: Technology deployment

From the course: Project Management Foundations: Risk

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Challenge: Technology deployment

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(intro music) - Many of the risks we've talked about in this course involve dealing with the technology you need to deploy and the effect it will have on stakeholders. Technical and change management risk elements that come with deploying new technology require proper planning. Let's practice creating effective mitigation actions for this risk category. Once again, think through the risk response strategies we've discussed in this course and the conditions that contribute to effective risk response. Those conditions are: appropriate to the significance of the risk, cost effective, realistic, agreed to, and owned by someone. So, given that, here's a scenario to consider. You're managing a project to replace a 25 year old warehouse and product distribution system, or WPD. The current WPD system is so old, it can't even support the use of a mouse. Most employees who use the existing WPD system have been around as long as the…

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