Creating and Managing Organizational Risks

This introduction article will help administrators to create and manage their organizational risks using the TDAdmin interface. The user must have TDAdmin access.

Overview

Organizational Risks help evaluate the risk of the request and project against preset organizational risk categories to help compare organizational risk levels between projects and requests. You may see a need to capture new types of these risks. This article describes how to create and manage your list of these organizational risks.

Where to Find This

This feature is used in the TDNext and TDClient interfaces, but it they are managed from TDAdmin.

Navigate to Organizational Risks to manage them following this path:

• TDAdmin > Portfolio Planning > Organizational Risks

Using Organizational Risks

Creating and Modifying Risks

When your organization recognizes new types of risks that you could encounter, perhaps as you expand the software/hardware that you utilize or as you embark on projects that affect systems never previously included in a project before, you will need to capture those risks in TDAdmin for reference on projects or requests.

To create a new risk:

1. In TDAdmin, navigate to Portfolio Planning > Risks.
2. Click +New.
3. In the New Risk popup, enter a Name and Description.
4. Click Save.

To edit an existing risk, go to TDAdmin > Portfolio Planning > Risks, and click the Edit link next to the risk.

Setting the Risks Percent of Value

The Risks Percent of Value determines how risks will be weighed in the composite score. This does not update the Composite Score of any projects with existing risks, it will only be used for risks added in the future.

To set the Risks Percent of Value:

1. In TDAdmin, navigate to Portfolio Planning > Organizational Risks.
2. Select a new percent of value.
3. Click Save.

Deleting Risks

When a type of risk becomes outdated or stops being used, it should be removed from the system.

To delete a risk:

1. In TDAdmin, navigate to Portfolio Planning > Risks.
2. Click the Delete link next to the unused risk.
3. Click the OK button in the confirmation popup.

Gotchas & Pitfalls

The percent of value for Organizational Risks is applied to all organizational risks evenly. There is no way to apply different precents of value to different of these types of risks.