Document and track identified opportunities for the project.

Properties

The document type opportunity provides the following properties:

Please note that only information about specific properties is provided here. Common document property used by all document types are documented by Document Properties.

Type

Specify the type to organize opportunities.

Phase

Specify the phase of the project this opportunity may have impact.

Severity

Asses the severity of the opportunity's impact on the project.

Probability

Assess the probability this opportunity will have impact on the project.

Reporter

Specify the reporter in case further information is required.

Assignee

Specify the stakeholder responsible for tracking this opportunity.

Recognized on

Log the date the opportunity has been recognized.

Deadline

Log the date the opportunity has to be managed that it will have positive impacts on the project.

Reference

Add references to information on external systems here.

Sections

Description

Document cause and description of the opportunity.

Summary

Provide a summary of the documents structure and key points. This is an informative abstract typically of about 100 to 200 words.

Recognition

Describe how the manifestation of the opportunity can be detected as early as possible.

Drivers

List the drivers that support an aspect of the opportunity. This may affect the impact, the likelihood of occurrence, the time or any other aspect. Separating the drivers for an opportunity from its description allows to elaborate what influences apply to the opportunity.

Impact

Describe the impact the opportunity has on the project. Name also the resources that are specifically affected.

Actions

List the actions to take to increase the effects of the opportunity.

Relationships

List relationships to other opportunities, risks, or problems.

Subordinate Risks

Complex opportunities may be detailed in separate opportunity descriptions, which are added as children to this document.

Notes

These are internal notes that are usually not exported and only visible to team members with write access.

But this is not a safe place to store sensible information. It is just a convenience for the reader to not be bothered with notes stored here for the authors for later use. The security level is about suppressing the representation by a CSS style. Therefore consider this as a convenience for the reader, not as a security tool.

The text of notes sections is also indexed.

References

For a document the references section contains pointers to resources that prove the statements of the document.

Often these proofs are not easily distinguishable from further information. In this case you may want to skip the reference section in favour for the resource list.

For further information please refer to References and Resources.

Resources

The resources section provides references to further information to the topic of the document.

This may be information on the internet provided by the resource or information in the team's information systems. Anything the reader of the resource might want to know, may be listed here.

For further information please refer to References and Resources.

Related Doctypes

Opportunity Type

The Opportunity Type Doctype allows to organize risks.