If not managed properly, risk reduces your ability to achieve your project's goal and can even derail your project. Knowing how to anticipate, assess, and manage risk is one of the knowledge areas of the Project Management. Please read the required materials and view the video course before responding to this discussion.

Provide your responses tothe posted Discussion topics below as well as to at least two of your classmates' postings. Response to each discussion question should consist of minimum sentences.Post responses in your own words for each Discussion - marking each response / topic separately.Answer each Discussion Question in paragraph format using APA in text citations, as appropriate, and include a References list for all your sources.

Week 8 - Discussion Questions:

What are the steps of the Risk Management Planning and what are the characteristics of each step?

Use the Risk Management Plan Template from the Lynda.com course (under Exercise Files) to complete the Risk Management Plan for your project. Alternatively, you can use the template in Excel format posted under this week's module - follow instructions from the Exercise Files for the assigned Lynda.com course. Share your document in this discussion through a link to Google drive.

Reflection questions: What is the one most important thing that you took away from this lesson? How will that help you achieve your goals you set for this class?

pls answer the question and add all the references don't use any AI and avoid plagiavrism, thank you