Give a real life example of mitigating a risk, avoiding a risk, transferring a risk and retaining a risk.

Let us understand the terms with examples:

Avoiding a risk: A risk which is pre-identified and which would create huge loss for the ongoing task can be avoided.

For example:

If there is a deadline for a project and there are only few more days to complete, then planning a training program on soft skill will be a riskier one. So training program can be planned sometimes later, thus avoiding risk.

Transferring a risk: Normally this will be mentioned in the project contract. If there is an issue and the employees of the company are already filled with work, then the issue can be outsourced so now the risk is transferred.

Retaining a risk: You can retain the risk if the impact is negligible. Absence of a software developer for 10 days. So the Project manager need not worry about finding an alternate person for that 10 days alone, which might lead to less understanding of flow and may raise more errors if multiple resource work on the content.

Mitigating a risk: The risk will be avoided by taking some preventive measures. For example, if a smart board needs to be sold, a sales team cannot give a good demo hence the sale of product percentage is less. So to avoid this, a training can be arranged to sales team so that it will boost up sales. Others who were absent on training, ll sale less but the impact is minimum.