ABSTRACT
The Risk Interdependencies tool involves analysing the relationships between identified risks in a group setting. The intention is that this tool is a quick-to-use addition to standard risk-identification techniques that can be introduced at any meeting as part of the standard review of the risk/issues log at the regular project status review meetings. It can also be used by the project team to identify any interdependencies which should be flagged in project status reports. This tool is influenced by work done in the systems field on ways of mapping interdependencies and interrelationships within a system by Forrester, popularised by Peter Senge's The Fifth Discipline, together with cognitive mapping by Ackerman, Eden and Williams and Williams. However it simplifies some of those ideas into very quick-to-use tool which is designed to encourage discussion about linkages and interdependencies. This tool also helps in creating a mutually developed understanding of risks within the project or programme, helping to resolve directional complexity.
