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Identifying and Mitigating Your Biggest OSS Risks (PAOSS-EE-01)

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Are you about to embark on a new OSS/BSS project and need to prepare a risk plan?

There are many different types of risk, including many hidden ones.

This course provides you with the process and templates for identifying your OSS/BSS risks (before and during the project). The templates include over 175  sample risks and mitigation strategies for you to consider when building up your risk plan to cater to your specific situation.

It also comes with a one-hour workshop with one of PAOSS’ risk management experts.

(Scroll down for a detailed description about what comes with this course)

$297.00

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Build an OSS/BSS Risk Plan You Can Defend

If you’re about to embark on an OSS/BSS project, you already know this much:

  • These complex programmes don’t fail because of obvious risks
  • They fail because of the ones nobody thought to plan and mitigate early enough.

And when those risks surface late, they don’t land on the project.
They land on the person responsible for delivery.

The truth about OSS/BSS risk planning

OSS/BSS transformation projects are relatively rare. Most implementers are asked to produce a  project plan and risk register long before they’ve experienced OSS/BSS failure modes firsthand.

So they do what they can:

  • They use generic project risk templates

  • They document obvious delivery and vendor risks

  • They assume experience will fill the gaps later

  • They hope their team of experts will also contribute to the list of risks and their mitigations

That’s how Unknown-Unknown Risk forms.

It’s certainly not because of incompetence.
It’s because OSS/BSS risk is specialised, hidden, and rarely documented in detail.

When those Unknown-Unknown Risk gaps are exposed, it becomes Delivery Credibility Risk
And if discovery happens during build or integration, it turns into Late-Stage Risk Shock

This course exists to remove guesswork from OSS/BSS risk

The OSS/BSS Risk Planning course gives you a proven methodology and battle-hardened templates to identify risks before they become expensive, political, or personal.

This is not theory.
It is a practical system built around the painful experiences of real OSS/BSS projects.

There’s a reason why the OctopOSS is the logo for Passionate About OSS (PAOSS). It’s because of the Unknown-Unknowns that arise on any significant OSS/BSS project. Just when you think you have all the project tentacles tied down, another one comes and whacks you over the back of the head.

What you’ll be able to do differently

Surface risks you didn’t know existed

You’ll use structured OSS/BSS risk classifications and Five-Why analysis to uncover failure points most teams never document.

Build a risk register based on experience, not hope

Instead of starting from a blank page, you’ll work from the risk register template we use on our own projects, which contains over 175 real OSS/BSS risks, drawn from lived OSS/BSS programme experiences.

Defend your risk plan with confidence

Your risk artefacts will stand up to governance scrutiny, vendor challenge, and stakeholder review.

Prevent late discovery from becoming late-stage shock

By defining mitigation, monitoring, and reporting upfront, you dramatically reduce rework, budget escalation, and credibility damage.

How the course works:

Creating a risk management methodology
Learn a structured approach tailored specifically to OSS/BSS delivery.

Establishing goals and context
Set the scope that determines which risks actually matter.

Analysing major OSS/BSS risk classifications
Understand where OSS/BSS projects really fail and why.

Preparing a risk management matrix
Use a provided template to document risk, mitigation, ownership, and monitoring clearly.

Risk treatment, monitoring, and reporting
Turn risks into controlled variables rather than future surprises.

Video-led guidance throughout
Concise, practical instruction designed for implementers, not academics.

Templates included:

  • Risk Management Plan template
    A structured document for categorising and managing OSS/BSS risks

  • Risk Register with 175+ sample OSS/BSS risks
    A practical starting point built from real projects

  • Five-Why Analysis workbook
    Used to trace common OSS/BSS failures back to root causes

Expert support included:

You also receive one hour with a PAOSS OSS/BSS project risk expert.

Use this time to:

  • Validate your risk register

  • Pressure-test assumptions

  • Identify risks and get answers specific to your project context

This is where Unknown-Unknown Risk gets exposed fastest.

Why PAOSS

PAOSS is entirely dedicated to OSS/BSS projects.

The methodologies and risk registers in this course are derived from OSS/BSS programme experiences on projects ranging from small product swaps to highly complex transformations worth tens of millions of dollars.

We’ve seen what works.
More importantly, we’ve seen what goes wrong. We’ve been whacked by the OctopOSS more times than we’d like to admit.

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If you’re responsible for OSS/BSS delivery, risk ignorance is not neutral.
It’s a liability.

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Refund guarantee

If this course does not materially improve your ability to identify and manage OSS/BSS risks for your specific project, you’re covered by a refund.

No debate. No justification required.

PS.

Late-stage risk discovery doesn’t just cost money.
It costs time, trust, and credibility.

This course exists to make sure you never have to explain why a risk “wasn’t identified earlier”.

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