ITPEC IP April 2023 Question 51
At the beginning phase of a new personnel system development project, in order to clarify the risks, the persons in charge of the planning department, personnel department, and information systems department, who act as the project team members, get together and make a list of the risks that they can think of concerning the project. What is such a method called?
Explanation
Brainstorming — members voice ideas freely, here the possible risks, without criticising one another.
Brainstorming has four rules: no criticism, free-wheeling ideas, quantity over quality, and combining or building on others' ideas. Members from planning, personnel and information systems each see different risks, so a free exchange at the start of the project produces a broad list of risks, which is then analysed and prioritised.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- •(a) Walk-through — a review in which the author walks colleagues through a deliverable, such as a design document, to find errors
- •(b) Critical path method — schedule analysis that finds the longest chain of dependent activities, which sets the project's duration
- •(c) Simulation — imitating a system's behaviour with a model to predict results under given conditions
Key rule: Risk identification starts by generating candidates widely (brainstorming, checklists, interviews) with judgement held back; analysis and prioritisation come afterwards.
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