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Mitigate

Meaning in project management, with examples

/ˈmɪtɪɡeɪt/verbCommon term

In project management, mitigate means: To take action that makes a risk less likely to happen, or makes its effect smaller if it does happen.

In Turkish: azaltmak, hafifletmek, etkisini düşürmek

How it is used

A formal word used in risk registers, reports and meetings. You mitigate a risk or its impact. The noun is mitigation: mitigation plan, mitigation actions. Other risk responses include avoid, transfer and accept.

Example sentences

  1. To mitigate the risk of a late delivery, we ordered the steel from two suppliers.

  2. What's the mitigation plan if the key developer leaves before go-live?

Common collocations

  • mitigate a risk
  • mitigate the impact
  • mitigation plan
  • mitigating action
  • riskAn uncertain event that has not happened yet but could affect the project's time, cost, quality or scope if it does.
  • risk registerA document or table that lists a project's risks, with details such as their likelihood, impact, owner and the actions planned to deal with them.
  • contingencyExtra money or time added to a project plan to cover known risks and unexpected problems.
  • workaroundA temporary way of getting the work done despite a problem, without actually fixing the cause of the problem.

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