Identifying and Managing Project Risk : Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project
ISBN: 9780814413401 | 0814413404
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Amacom Books
Pub. Date: 2/18/2009
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Winner of the Project Management Institute's David I. Cleland Project Management Literature Award 2010It'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 t... MORE
| Acknowledgments | p. vii |
| Why Project Risk Management? | |
| The Doomed Project | |
| Risk | |
| Benefits and Uses of Risk Data | |
| The Project Risk Management Process | |
| Anatomy of a Failed Project: The First Panama Canal Project | p. 1 |
| Planning for Risk Management | |
| Project Selection | |
| Overall Project Planning Processes | ... MORE |
| Defining Risk Management for the Project | |
| The PERIL Database | |
| A Second Panama Canal Project: Sponsorship and Initiation (1902-1904) | p. 17 |
| Identifying Project Scope Risk | |
| Sources of Scope Risk | |
| Defining Deliverables | |
| High-Level Risk Assessment Tools | |
| Setting Limits | |
| Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) | |
| Other Scope-Related Risks | |
| Documenting the Risks | |
| Panama Canal: Setting the Objective (1905-1906) | p. 40 |
| Identifying Project Schedule Risk | |
| Sources of Schedule Risk | |
| Activity Definition | |
| Estimating Activity Duration | |
| Activity Sequencing | |
| Documenting the Risks | |
| Panama Canal: Planning (1905-1907) | p. 70 |
| Identifying Project Resource Risk | |
| Sources of Resource Risk | |
| Resource Planning | |
| Staff Acquisition | |
| Outsourcing | |
| Project-Level Estimates | |
| Cost Estimating and cost Budgeting | |
| Documenting the Risks | |
| Panama Canal: Resources (1905-1907) | p. 100 |
| Managing Project Constraints and Documenting Risks | |
| Analyzing Constraints | |
| Managing Opportunities | |
| Scope Modification | |
| Resource Modification | |
| Schedule Modification | |
| Assessing Options and Updating Plans | |
| Seeking Missing Risks | |
| Documenting the Risks | |
| Panama Canal: Improving the Plan (1906) | p. 127 |
| Quantifying and Analyzing Activity Risks | |
| Quantitative and Qualitative Risk Analysis | |
| Risk Probability | |
| Risk Impact | |
| Qualitative Risk Assessment | |
| Quantitative Risk Assessment | |
| Panama Canal: Risks (1906-1914) | p. 149 |
| Managing Activity Risks | |
| Root-Cause Analysis | |
| Categories of Risk | |
| Risk Response Planning | |
| Risk Avoidance | |
| Risk Mitigation | |
| Risk Transfer | |
| Implementing Preventative Ideas | |
| Contingency Planning | |
| Risk Acceptance | |
| Documenting Your Risk Plans | |
| Managing A Specific Risk | |
| Panama Canal: Risk Plans (1906-1914) | p. 176 |
| Quantifying and Analyzing Project Risks | |
| Project-Level Risk | |
| Aggregating Risk Responses | |
| Questionnaires and Surveys | |
| Project Simulation and Modeling | |
| Analysis of Scale | |
| Project Appraisal | |
| Project Metrics | |
| Financial Metrics | |
| Panama Canal: Overall Risks (1907) | p. 212 |
| Managing Project Risk | |
| Project Documentation Requirements | |
| Project Start-Up | |
| Selecting and Implementing Project Metrics | |
| Management Reserve | |
| Project Baseline Negotiation | |
| Project Plan Validation | |
| Specification Change Management | |
| Panama Canal: Adjusting the Objective (1907) | p. 251 |
| Monitoring and Controlling Risky Projects | |
| Don't Panic | |
| Applying the Plan | |
| Project Monitoring | |
| Collecting Project Status | |
| Metrics and Trend Analysis | |
| Responding to Issues | |
| Communication | |
| Project Archive | |
| Project Reviews and Risk Reassessment | |
| Taking Over a Troubled Project | |
| Panama Canal: Risk-Based Replanning (1908) | p. 272 |
| Closing Projects | |
| Project Closure | |
| Project Retrospective Analysis | |
| Panama Canal: Completion (1914) | p. 292 |
| Program, Portfolio, and Enterprise Risk Management | |
| Project Risk Management in Context | |
| Program Risk Management | |
| portfolio Risk Management | |
| Enterprise Risk Management | |
| Panama Canal: Over the Years | p. 301 |
| Conclusion | |
| Choosing to Act | |
| Panama Canal: The Next Project | p. 332 |
| Appendix: Selected Detail from the PERIL Database | p. 339 |
| Index | p. 349 |
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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.
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