The risk management plan for the project must be started at the launch meeting so that further risk identification can be extended to include the technology of the process/product, the project’s schedule, resource base, and a myriad of other risks facing the project but not really identifiable until the project plan has begun to take form. One of the outcomes of the project planning process will be the formulation of the project’s risk management group and the initial risk management plan that the group develops during the process