OpenEHR SEC risk register

This wiki page starts the brainstorming process to gather potential risks SEC faces (or is likely to face in the future). The only required column is the risk description, both likelihood and severity, as the potential solution, can be discussed further on.

For likelihood values go from highly unlikely to highly likely (highly unlikely, unlikely, likely, highly likely)

For severity values go from low to severe (low, medium, high, severe)

Risk description	Likelihood	Severity	Planning and control	Comments

Risk description	Likelihood	Severity	Planning and control
Atlassian rises Jira’s cost	unlikely	low	Look for other free alternatives (such as notion)
SEC member has to step down	unlikely	medium	Ask stepping down member to provide a suitable candidate if the organization or area of expertise becomes underrepresented
SEC direction has to step down	unlikely	high	organize a process for new SEC direction, with proposal of candidates and formal voting
SEC Expert has to step down	unlikely	low	Look for new experts if there are no SEC Experts in a given area of expertise
WG chair (or co-chair) has to step down	unlikely	medium	organize a process for new SEC chair, with proposal of candidates and formal voting
SEC members are running out of their time; lack of funding	likely	high	allocate protected time time funding discount for openEHR membership fee and/or conference/meeting fees for SEC members
Loss of highly specialized expertise on parts of the specifications	likely	high	constantly look for new members grow expertise
Proposing specifications that are not implementable	unlikely	medium	validate specs by having real life implementation before finalizing specifications
Reinventing the wheel	unlikely	medium	Analyze if new specs or solutions are aligned with other relevant standards and technologies
Lose access to UML tooling	unlikely	high	Look for other free alternatives or get another license
Too many SEC members from a single organization	unlikely	medium	Keep SEC members from a single organization limited in number Limit voting SEC members per organization
Conformance not finished	likely	high	Ask for a reduced conformance Ask board for funding