Business Continuity Disaster Recovery Project Management OPM3 Risk Assessment Training

Scope on most projects changes over time and as the scope changes, risk events that may have been low at one point may rise in importance or probability. Every time a change in scope is requested, a part of the analysis of the change should include the potential changes to existing identified risks or the introduction of new risks to the project.

From a Business Continuity viewpoint, you have to be concerned with scope changes to your Business Continuity project itself. Using good project management methodologies, you can prevent poorly considered and poorly funded changes from being imposed on your project.

You also need to be aware of changes going on with other projects. Even if you were consulted with someone's initial project proposal, Business Continuity may never be given a serious second thought again. Changes within an external project could seriously complicate your ability to recover.