Project risk management is what separates good project managers from great ones. It’s not enough to spot potential pitfalls—you need a battle-tested plan to dodge them or fight back when they hit. Even when everything has been planned and executed to perfection, an unexpected event can cause considerable duress on the project stakeholders and even cause the project to … [Read more...]
Risk is inherent in all projects because projects, by definition, represent a one time improvement to an operational process. There is usually some sort of primary risk factor under which the project was defined, such as market risk for the development of a new product, or technical risk for an assembly line improvement project (will it speed up the line, etc?). After … [Read more...]
In a proper project risk analysis, once the risks to the project have been identified (step 1), their probability and impact given a value and an overall priority (step 2), risk responses are drawn up (step 3). For each response plan, trigger conditions should be identified. These are the conditions that warrant the implementation of the response plan. For example, an … [Read more...]
