Introduction
- Personal Risk Profile
- Our relationship with risk
- CHAOS study
- Sources of project risk
- Project success factors
- Importance of Risk Management
Basic Risk Management Concepts
- Risk
- Threat and opportunity
- Relationship between issues and risks
- Risk Management
- The Standard Risk Model
- Impact of risk on project plans
- Levels of risk
- Risk Management timing
Planning for Risk Management
- Identifying risk stakeholders
- Communities Analysis
- Stakeholder profile
- Support Analysis
- Risk Management Plan
Risk Identification
- The risk identification process
- The risk statement
- Tools and techniques
- The Risk Register: Tracking threats and opportunities
Threat Analysis
- Characterizing threats
- Tools and Techniques
- Threat prioritization: Using numeric scores
- Risk Impact Area
- Risk Triggers
- Root cause analysis
- Threat timing and urgency
- Assessing the quantitative impact of unmanaged risk
Threat Response Planning
- Developing proactive responses to threats
- Residual risk analysis: reprioritizing threats
- Contingency planning
- Quantitative assessment of response and contingency plans
- Secondary risks
- Examining cost / benefit of risk plans
- Budgeting for threat management
Opportunity Identification
- Two kinds of opportunity
- Why opportunities are missed
- An enhanced model of risk
- Why opportunities are difficult to see
- What we can do to find more opportunities
- Seven Step Approach to opportunity management
- Using the Opportunity Register
- Quantitative assessment of opportunities
- Calculating Net Benefit
- Gaining management buy-in to your risk approach
Risk Monitoring and Control
- Watching the risk landscape
- Issues management: Activating risk plans
- The issues log
- Acting on opportunities
- Updating the Risk Register
- Lessons Learned
- Wrap-up discussion