Team/Project Management Risk
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Likelihood
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Impact
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Mitigation
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No prior experience in flash AS3, php coding for object event handling
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High
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High
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- All members have went through the basic tutorial guide book found online to overcome the initial learning curve.
- Each members also shared our useful findings when we did our research while coding our assigned task/function so that it saves the time other members need to spend on researching a solution for similar problem
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Varying commitment of team members from time to time may hinder project progress
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Medium
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Medium
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- Each member to be responsible in their own time management
- Inform the PM if task assigned to you during certain period is too much so that workload could be properly re-allocated to the rest of the team
- Inform the PM should there be any expected delays in the task assigned to them
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Technology/Design Risk
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Likelihood
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Impact
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Mitigation
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Deployment environment in remote server may be different from our local machine's. This may result in incompatibility should the codes be transported to production.
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Medium
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High
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- Local machine to mimic the environment of deployement server as close as possible.
- Check that the deployment server supports the version of softwares the project will need, i.e. mySQL and php supported version
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Sponsor's requirements may vary over time, thus impact our project schedules.
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Low
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High
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- Frequent involvement of our sponsor by giving weekly updates with our sponsor's to keep him up to date about our progress and let him review and test the progress
- To have a detailed project scope
- Seek consultation project supervisor and discuss with sponsor on the possibility of changes and its impact to project schedule
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Money was paid to 99 Design to get graphics design. However, there is a chance that we may not get the design expectations we want
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Medium
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High
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- Voting system to allow more people to vote the best designs submitted by the designers so that it gives us a better idea what our target audience prefers
- get an alternative graphics designer
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Difficulties in recontacting the same designer who won the 99Design contest to further collaborate on further graphics required
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Medium
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High
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- ensure that emails are exchanged with the designers before the contest ends
- communicate with the potential winning designer before the contest ends so that he/she understands that external collaboration is needed for further development when the contests ends
- get an alternative graphics designer
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