Halfway through a 12-month data-center migration, the hardware supplier emails you that shipment of core network switches may slip by three weeks because of a global component shortage. During planning, this threat was logged in the risk register, a contingency plan and fallback triggers were approved, and risk owners were assigned. The potential delay now meets the documented trigger condition, although the switches have not yet missed their original ship date.
What should you do FIRST to implement the agreed-upon risk responses and protect the project schedule?
Continue with the current schedule and address the issue if the shipment actually slips.
Notify stakeholders of the potential delay but defer any action until the vendor confirms the slip.
Activate the contingency plan in the risk register, coordinating with the risk owner and team to carry it out.
Immediately start sourcing a replacement supplier to avoid relying on the current vendor.
PMI's Implement Risk Responses process requires the project team to execute the response that was authorized during Plan Risk Responses as soon as the predefined trigger is reached. Therefore you should activate the contingency plan recorded in the risk register, coordinate with the assigned risk owner, and integrate the extra work into the schedule. Waiting for the delay to happen, seeking new vendor alternatives that are not in the plan, or merely informing stakeholders without action would ignore the approved risk management plan and could jeopardize the timeline.
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