Get a risk register template (and a host of other useful templates to get your project under control). Documenting your approach to dealing with the risk goes a long way to making other people feel that you have the project under control.

The project manager’s role is to work out how to make these risks disappear or at least have less of an impact if they do happen. Each project risk will need a management strategy and an action plan. Work with your team to establish what to do about them.

7. Manage Risk Risks are things that could potentially cause problems (there are also risks that could potentially improve things, but that’s for another day). They haven’t yet, but they might. Don’t ignore them.