However, the risk officer cannot come up with solutions for project threats without help from the rest of the project team. To that end, the project manager and the risk officer can share the task of assigning a team member to each risk listed in the database. This way, team members can hold each other accountable for minimizing or monitoring threats.
Although a risk officer may contact team members about risk-related tasks that have been ignored or gone overdue, a project manager is ultimately responsible for keeping team members focused on the right activity. For their relationship to work effectively, risk officers and project managers must coordinate the efforts of fellow team members. Too much time spent on managing risks can cause projects to fall behind schedule. Likewise, an aggressive task schedule that ignores risk completely can result in catastrophe. Therefore, measuring a project’s progress against the resistance posed by risks helps remind leaders to keep activity in balance.
