an owner’s representative is a team risk manager
The Owner’s Representative as risk manager:
- creates plans to mitigate
- seeks direction from owner
owner’s representative role as risk manager
The owner’s Representative role includes:
- Planning how risk will be managed in the particular project. Plans should include risk management tasks, responsibilities,
activities and budget. - Assigning a risk officer—a team member other than a project manager who is responsible for foreseeing potential project
problems. Typical characteristic of risk officer is a healthy skepticism. - Maintaining live project risk database. Each risk should have the following attributes: opening date, title, short description,
probability and importance. Optionally a risk may have an assigned person responsible for its resolution and a date by
which the risk must be resolved. - Creating anonymous risk reporting channel. Each team member should have possibility to report risk that he/she
foresees in the project. - Preparing mitigation plans for risks that are chosen to be mitigated. The purpose of the mitigation plan is to describe
how this particular risk will be handled-what, when, by who and how will it be done to avoid it or minimize consequences
if it becomes a liability. - Summarizing planned and faced risks, effectiveness of mitigation activities, and effort spent for the risk management.