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Category
Funding
Owner

CERN

Risk Summary

Flexibility of CERN project budget lost

Risk Detail

The project nature of the CERN LCG budget is important, the risk is this becomes a yearly materials budget.

Effect

Cannot adapt spending to often changing and unpredictable LHC parameters and requirements, and also follow the unpredictable hardware market pricing, losing the ability to purchase at opportune times.

Mitigation

Work with RPC to keep the project nature of the budget.

Risk
Risk Impact
4
Risk Likelihood
2
Risk Severity
8

Likelihood
1: never expected to happen | 2: could happen but very unlikely | 3: could well happen | 4: will probably happen

Impact
1: we can deal with it, no problem | 2: a bit of a hassle but not too bad | 3: can be managed, but with significant effort | 4: crisis


 

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