You have been assigned as project manager to develop a small, interactive system for a car hire company. The system will provide functionality for adding new members (clients), updating members details, hiring cars and returning cars. Discussions with the company staff have revealed the following facts: there are some confusion and uncertainty about the content and layout of the interface and also the requirements for adding new cars and updating cars details; the companys business line may soon be expanded from cars only to hire small vans as well. Furthermore, discussions with your software engineers have revealed the following facts: the uncertainty about the requirements means that the total development time will be difficult to predict; some of the new team members are unfamiliar with testing tools; some key team members may be unavailable at critical times; the team are planning to use some reusable software components which to date have not been tested.

A) List FIVE different types of risk. (5 marks, 1 mark for each)

B) Identify ONE potential risk, from the scenario above, for each type of risk that you have listed in part a). (10 marks, 2 marks for each)

C) Develop a strategy for managing FIVE of the risks identified in part B). Your answer should be in the form of a table with ONE strategy for each risk. (15 marks, 3 marks for each)

Note: You do not need to re-write the Possible Risk in the table, numbers will be referenced to your answers in part b.