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Project Management Foundations: Risk

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Overview

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Project risk: A battle of resiliency
  • Keeping current with project management risks
1. Risk Characteristics and Planning
  • Project risk: A product of uncertainty
  • The risk management process
  • Managing risk, ambiguity, and project stakeholders
  • Dealing with volatility in a project environment
  • The components of a project management risk plan
2. Risk Outcomes: Threats and Opportunities
  • Project risk identification methods
  • Project threats
  • Project opportunities
  • Building project resiliency
3. Tailoring Project Uncertainty
  • Understanding risk appetite and tolerance
  • Determining project risk analysis level
  • Budgeting for risk
  • Tailoring risk plans
  • Project vs. task risk
4. Strategic Risk Management
  • Managing project risk strategically
  • Knowns and unknowns
  • Managing unknown unknowns
  • Identifying risk triggers
  • Uncertainty of requirements and technology
5. Optimizing Risk Responses
  • Challenge: Staffing uncertainty
  • Solution: Staffing uncertainty
  • Challenge: Requirements volatility
  • Solution: Requirements volatility
  • Challenge: Technology deployment
  • Solution: Technology deployment
Conclusion
  • Your risk management toolkit

Taught by

Bob McGannon

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