$1.$ Why was a risk management plan considered unnecessary?

$2.$ Should risk management planning be performed in the proposal stage or after the contract award, assuming that it must be done?

$3.$ Does the customer have the right to expect the contractor to perform risk analysis and develop a risk management plan if it is not called out as part of the contractual statement of work?

$4.$ Would Altex have been more interested in developing a risk management plan if the project were funded entirely from within?

$5.$ How effective will the risk management plan be if developed by the project manager in seclusion$?$

$6.$ Should the customer be allowed to participate in or assist the contractor in developing a risk management plan?

$7.$ How might the Army have responded if it were presented with a risk management plan early during the R&D activities?

$8.$ How effective is a risk management plan if cost overruns and schedule slippages are always allowed?

$9.$ How can severe optimism or severe pessimism influence the development of a risk management plan?

$10.$ How does one develop a risk management plan predicated upon needed advances in the state of the art?

$11.$ Can the sudden disclosure of a risk management plan be used as a stopgap measure to prevent the termination of a potentially failing project? $12.$ Can risk management planning be justified on almost all programs and projects?