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What is the difference between risk and issue?

Can you define both terms as used in Primavera?

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Question added by Anisuddin Siddiqui , Sr. Planning Engineer , Southwest Architecture
Date Posted: 2013/08/05
Nancy Refai
by Nancy Refai , Health, safety and environmental management Trainer and consultant , Freelancer

A Risk is a possible event impacting objectives negatively or positively. An issue however is an event taking place and causing uncertain impact

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Risk: an event that can have either a positive OR negative impact to you quality, time, scope. For example, your product can have a low risk of early regulatory approval which is a good thing but has an impact to time, scope, etc. or runs a high risk of late regulatory approval which has other impacts such as not being first to markets, etc.

 

an issue is a risk that has been realized. It has already come to fruition and you should have a mitigation plan I place.

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