Because several problems have occurred on the Green Computing Research Project, as described in the previous section, you decide to be more proactive in managing risks. You also want to address positive and negative risks.

Q1) Create a risk register for the project using the risk_register.xls template. Identify six potential risks, including at least two positive risks.

Several communications issues have arisen on the Green Computing Research Project in the three months since the project started. Your team had agreed to post all of its work on a shared site, but a couple of team members dont seem to like using the site and prefer to use e-mails and attachments. When they do, other team members cannot easily see the work in one place or provide feedback using the wiki tools. It is also clear that some team members are better researchers and writers than others. When you have weekly conference calls with the webcams, at least a couple of team members dont use the webcam and rely on the audio instead. You find that the meetings rarely end on time because some team members become very talkative. Also, you were grilled by Ito at the last monthly program review meeting. He thought youd be much further along in the project by now and expects you to have a recommendation for a promising green computing project by next month. You havent seen any great ideas yet. You want to start having face-to-face meetings at least twice a month, but you know it would make your project go over budget even more. At least the Excel model is going well. You and Matt have put a good deal of time into developing it. If only you had enough good data to put into it.

Risk Register for Project Name:

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You have to identify 6 risks in this template.