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Our risk analysts bring an independent and insightful perspective to building a true understanding

of the risks faced by your project. In the full form of our service:-

• We interview a full spectrum of project stakeholders, applying our experience and proven

interviewing methods to draw out thoughts about risk from the project's people. We attune our

approach to each interviewee's nature, for example asking questions proactively or following the

interviewee's line of thought as suits the moment. Our approach includes asking "naļve questions"

which in fact challenge accepted wisdom, thus bringing out further risks. Most importantly, we are

good listeners.

• We facilitate project risk brainstorms, generally to provide a quick initial view of the risk and to

establish lines of questioning for the interviews.

• Further, our experience of analogous situations in other programmes adds to the insight that we

can elicit, by providing context for our questions and as a source of ideas regarding potential risks.

• We recognise every project is different: we adapt our approach to suit the project's particular needs.

• The approach described above sounds demanding. It is: but we have a lot of successful

experience of implementing it.

The independence we offer is important, as it is not only crucial to establish a dispassionate view

of the project's risks, but also to provide all the stakeholders (especially your Customer) with

confidence that it is in fact accurate.

The real added value MMA brings lies in experience. We do not employ inexperienced people

tasked with reading out questions from checklists to your personnel, and with acting as secretary

for their answers. Rather, we apply our experience to seek out the risks that would otherwise be

missed, writing down the risks we perceive whether or not they have been articulated. Our

Clients know this, which is why we have been able to establish long lasting and mutually beneficial

relationships.

We can also use our experience to help your people improve their performance in identifying risk:

see "facilitation".