Understanding and Mitigating Project Risks

To control project risks:

  1. Do a risk analysis early in the upgrade process.
  2. Look for key failure points, especially with resource loading for your technical and business specialists.
  3. If you lack resources, develop a plan to supplement and backup critical personnel.
  4. Determine project risks such as resource contention and other projects going live at the same time.
  5. For risks that have a high probability of occurring and have a large impact, develop specific mitigation plans that describe what actions to take if the risk becomes reality.
  6. Review the analysis and plans on a regular basis.

Related Topics

Upgrade Best Practices

Determining Your Upgrade Path

Treating Your Upgrade Activity as a Formal Company Project

Using an Appropriate Change Management Strategy

Building an Upgrade Team with Broad and Complementary Skills

Utilizing Peer and Oracle Resources

Deciding When to Change or Add Business Processes

Managing Issues

Preparing the Organization

Ensuring the Quality of Your Data

Taking Inventory for Your System

Preparing a Go-Live Checklist

Evaluating Your Architecture

Calculating New Hardware Sizing

Identifying Custom Code and Scripting

Adhering to Current Tested Configurations Requirements

Implementing the Current P6 EPPM Release and Patches

Minimizing Application Data to Upgrade

Testing a Copy of the Production Database

Leveraging Existing Test Scripts and Plans

Performing Index Management

Training End Users on the New Solution


Last Published Tuesday, December 12, 2023