| | Risk Analysis |
| | Project Name | Domain Redesign |
| | Completed By: |
| | Date Completed: |
| | What is the risk? | Describe the identified risk | How is the risk currently managed? | Comments/Concerns | | Likelihood |
| | Web addresses / URL's | The change of the Url might not be found by the search engines . | Rederecting the old Url to the new one . | The people concerned with the task will spend a good amount of time designing the redirection route in order to ensure that the redirection of the olrd URL to the new one will be as efficient as possible, in order to make sure that one does not encounter any problems accessing the new url by typing in the old one into their browsers. | | Low |
| | Analytics | Google analytics might lose track of traffics coming to the website . | Google analytics installed in the new website | The installation of the Google analytics onto the new website will serve to ensure that the data and traffics coming into the new website flows efficiently like it did with the old website. At the end of the day, this will ensure that the operation of the new website is similar to the operation of the old one, or even better considering the new upgrades made. | | Low |
| | Organic traffic | Loosing first page on search engines | Writing blogs to bring more traffice on the website | Bloggers will be contracted to bring to the awareness of our regular and old customers, and even the new customers, the changes that have been made by the company in terms of the shifting from one website domain to another. In addition to this reducing the confusion experienced and the frustration of finding out that what one is searching for no longer exists, it will also serve to market the company further, by notifying the people of its existence. The blogs will also ensure that the website access is done in an ordelry manner. | | Medium |
| | Content That works | Compare the old content and the new content to see what works better for traffic. | Most of the content from the old webiste will be reused | The content from the old, which we found out to be working efficiently will be reused in the new website. This will have a number of advantages. Firstly, it will give the website users a sense of familiarity. When the users feel familiar, they will be able to go about their business efficiently and without much of a problem. secondly, it will make the fixing of bugs easier since, the web designers are already used to the old website and thus, they know how to deal with any problems that might arise. The expected nature of how the website works will also be predetermined considering the old content is used thus, there will not be much of a change in how the company operates and handles its website data. | | Low |
| | Loosing directory | Time to redirect all the directories that might get lost in the process. | Directories are redirected to the new Url | Team will work overtime to make sure all the directories will be going to the new site at the time of launching the new website. In the instance that some directories will be left at the old website, the team will consider to do a number of testings after the launching of the website, in order to ensure that any pertinent problems are discovered and fixed promptly in order to make sure that they do not offer much of a problme to the customers who conduct their business using the website. After launching the website, a full system diagnostic will be run, in order to uncover any underlying issues which could affect access to the website in the first place. | | Medium |
| | User-experience | users might not like the new website. | collecting data of traffics | There was a concern about how the users would respond to the new website. Understandably, not every new thing is accepted with open arms at first. However, the team is prepared to offer guidance to the customers incase they need to know how to work their way around the website. this will bring about the feeling of acceptance, making the website users feel welcome and this will help them open up to the possibility of accepting the new website. | | Low |
| | Reference |
| | A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) – Fifth Edition |
| | Paul Kirvan IT free risk assessment template , retrived from http://searchdisasterrecovery.techtarget.com/Risk-assessments-in-disaster-recovery-planning-A-free-IT-risk-assessment-template-and-guide |
| | RobM November 30,2011, 7 things to consider when rebuilding your website , retrived from: http://webbuildersgroup.com/blog/7-things-to-consider-when-rebuilding-your-website/ |
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