Risks

 

Risk	Impact	Likelihood	Weight	Action
Failure to appoint RA	Severe (5)	Very Low (1)	5	Ensure appointment is well publicised internally and externally; identify appointable candidates in person (City has many graduates with relevant experience)
Failure to recruit participants	Bad (4)	Low (2)	8	Use established interaction laboratory user panel if required; give participants £15 compensation.
Data Loss	Bad (4)	Low (2)	8	Use Subversion server for continuous version control and backup on RAID server; Regular backup schedule to external storage.
Changing Software/Hardware Issue	Moderate (3)	High (4)	12	Ensure compliance with official APIs, avoid use of APIs under known threat of change or redundancy.
Server unavailability	Bad (4)	Low (2)	8	Ensure second tier server backup availability with Informatics Technical Support Team.