Synopses & Reviews
Fully updated and revised, this is the essential guide that helps project managers minimize risk . . . and achieve incredible success.It's no wonder that project managers spend so much time focusing their attention on risk identification. Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. Identifying and Managing Project Risk, now updated and consistent with the very latest Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide, takes readers through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every point in the process.Drawing on real-world situations and hundreds of examples, the book outlines proven methods, demonstrating key ideas for project risk planning and showing how to use high-level risk assessment tools. Analyzing aspects such as available resources, project scope, and scheduling, this new edition also explores the growing area of Enterprise Risk Management. Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, this book helps readers determine risk factors thoroughly and decisively...before a project gets derailed.
Synopsis
Winner of the Project Management Institute's David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award 2010 It's no wonder that project managers spend so much time focusing their attention on risk identification. Important projects tend to be time constrained, pose huge technical challenges, and suffer from a lack of adequate resources. Identifying and Managing Project Risk, now updated and consistent with the very latest Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK)(R) Guide, takes readers through every phase of a project, showing them how to consider the possible risks involved at every point in the process. Drawing on real-world situations and hundreds of examples, the book outlines proven methods, demonstrating key ideas for project risk planning and showing how to use high-level risk assessment tools. Analyzing aspects such as available resources, project scope, and scheduling, this new edition also explores the growing area of Enterprise Risk Management. Comprehensive and completely up-to-date, this book helps readers determine risk factors thoroughly and decisively...before a project gets derailed.
About the Author
Tom Kendrick (San Carlos, CA) is an internal project management consultant for Visa Inc., and the author of Results Without Authority (978-08144-7343-6). He has more than 30 years of project management experience, twelve of which were spent as a part of the Hewlett-Packard Project Management Initiative.
Table of Contents
Ch. 1. Why Project Risk Management? -- Ch. 2. Planning for Risk Management -- Ch. 3. Identifying Project Scope Risk -- Ch. 4. Identifying Project Schedule Risk -- Ch. 5. Identifying Project Resource Risk -- Ch. 6. Managing Project Constraints and Documenting Risks -- Ch. 7. Quantifying and Analyzing Activity Risks -- Ch. 8. Managing Activity Risks -- Ch. 9. Quantifying and Analyzing Project Risk -- Ch. 10. Managing Project Risk -- Ch. 11. Monitoring and Controlling Risky Projects -- Ch. 12. Closing Projects -- Ch. 13. Program, Portfolio, and Enterprise Risk Management -- Ch. 14. Conclusion -- App. Selected Detail from the PERIL Database.