Project risk management is what separates good project managers from great ones. 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 be considered a failure. Risk management is a three step process: Risk Identification Risk … [Read more...]
Creating Risk Response Plans
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...]
Crash Course in Engineering Risk Management
Could your projects use additional risk management? Experts agree that it is one of the most underutilized areas of project management. As engineers, when we're managing a project in our area of expertise we like to think we know the primary risks and we have them under control. But a small amount of risk management planning at the outset of every project will reap … [Read more...]