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**Develop Risk Mitigation strategy & plan**
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The objective of the Change Acceleration Risk Mitigation Strategy is to reduce risk and accelerate cloud migration.

### **Why**

  
Establishing a risk mitigation process offers a structured way to have visibility into the People issues related to the cloud migration. It allows for a consistent review of the status of the project as the team moves through the designated phases. This process will ensure the deliverables are on time, on budget and with high quality. It also offers an integrated approach with the cloud migration team to identifying and addressing risks. This process will enable the People & Change team to:

*   Determine schedule for periodically evaluating how the cloud migration is going
    
*   Develop evaluation tool
    
*   Conduct periodic evaluations
    
*   Determine priorities for action and assess risks of not acting on the issues that are identified
    
*   Determine corrective actions for priority items
    
*   Assign ownership for corrective actions
    
*   Monitor progress toward corrective action and re-evaluate regularly
    

  

### **Guidelines**

Collaborate closely with the cloud migration team to define and address risk identification and the mitigation process. Leverage findings from leadership alignment interviews. Establish guidelines for how _People_ related risks assigned to the People & Change team. Set dimensions by which the People & Change will categorize risks. Some examples may include Vision & Clarity, Culture, Commitment, Communications, retention and engagement, Skills and Capability. Participate in weekly status meetings to monitor and review risks and issue logs, decisions and interdependencies.

### **Who to involve**

Executive sponsor, Migration Project Leader, Migration Change Leader, Migration Change Agents or Champions, Cloud Center of Excellence, Internal Change team liaison, internal communications and HR.

### **Inputs and Outputs**

|   **INPUTS**   | **OUTPUTS** |
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|   *   MRA & Mobilize Outputs      *   Risk Assessment findings      *   Sponsor Interviews      *   Migration Leadership Risk management Criteria Weekly Migration status reports      *   Weekly People & Change status reports      *   Business Metrics   |   *   Change Acceleration Risk Mitigation Strategy        |

### **Instructions**

1.  Review Feedback and findings from Leadership Alignment interviews
    
2.  Review Business Metrics Criteria (Alignment with PM)
    
3.  Review Risk Identification and Risk Management approach (Alignment with PM)
    
4.  Assess Risk based on Change Acceleration Criteria (Is this a change issue - Yes, No.)
    
5.  Develop Mitigation approach
    
6.  Assign Risk to People & Change team member for mitigation and disposition
    
7.  Draft Change Acceleration Risk Mitigation Management Strategy
    
8.  Review and validate strategy with Cloud Migration Leadership
    
9.  Sign off on Risk Mitigation strategy

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