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Contingency Plan
How can contingency plan improve people, teams, or organisational effectiveness?
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What this template contains.
Purpose. Use this plan for a programme risk whose occurrence requires a prepared, funded and authorised course of action. Application. It complements the risk management plan and risk register and should be linked to the specific risk entry. Prepare it before the trigger occurs, when there is still time to secure resources, decision rights and communication routes. Completion discipline. Complete the document from current evidence, name its owner and approving authority, and link the plans, registers or decisions t
Use context
Purpose, application, discipline.
Purpose
Use this plan for a programme risk whose occurrence requires a prepared, funded and authorised course of action.
Application
It complements the risk management plan and risk register and should be linked to the specific risk entry. Prepare it before the trigger occurs, when there is still time to secure resources, decision rights and communication routes.
Completion discipline
Complete the document from current evidence, name its owner and approving authority, and link the plans, registers or decisions that support it. Retain approved versions and review the document whenever a material assumption, dependency, requirement or governance decision changes.
Field summary
Structured sections without protected files.
Document control
Program name, Program manager, Program sponsor, Actual start date
Plan content
A. Purpose, B. Trigger conditions, C. Cost impact, D. Schedule impact
G. Approvals
Program manager, Stakeholder 1, Stakeholder 2, Stakeholder N
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