Risk Management Plan Template

A risk management plan contains information on how a project team identifies, analyzes, plans, and monitors/controls potential negative impacts to the project (aka risks).

Grab the template in Word or OpenOffice format. One point to make - I focus entirely on potential negative impacts (risks) and not on potential positive impacts (opportunities). Many formal project management guidelines (such as the Project Management Institute’s PMBOK) call for opportunity identification/analysis in addition to risk identification/analysis. It’s been my experience that most projects don’t have time for this, and subsequently I have not included it in my template. You can easily fix that if you want.