
Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, Fifth Edition
Your business sometimes can depend on whether or not you can manage unexpected risks. Risk Management: Concepts and Guidance, 5th Edition will help you to manage those risks and sometimes even predict and attack the risks before they even happen. Through the powerful techniques and suggestions offered in this must-have manual you can asses and manage different risks all within the realm of the project you are working on or within your program environment.
The risks presented in this incredible manual are brought to you from the perspective of the project manager. It brings to light some of the lesser known facts that risk can be a hazard and also an opportunity that can be taken advantage of. Don’t miss out on this incredible book and don’t start another project without adding it to your library!
Table of Contents
- Risk Management Practices
- Risk Concepts
- The Risk Management Structure
- Expert Interviews
- Planning Meetings/The Risk Management Plan
- Risk Practice Methodology
- Documentation Reviews
- Analogy Comparisons
- Plan Evaluation
- Delphi Technique
- Brainstorming
- Crawford Slip Method (CSM)
- SWOT Analysis
- Checklists
- Risk Breakdown Structure
- Root Cause Identification and Analysis
- Risk Registers/Tables
- Project Templates
- Assumptions Analysis
- Decision Analysis-Expected Monetary Values
- Estimating Relationships
- Network Analysis (Excluding PERT)
- PERT
- Other Diagramming Techniques
- Rating Schemes
- Urgency Assessment
- Futures Thinking
- Risk Modeling
- Sensitivity Analysis
- Monte Carlo Situations
- Risk Factors
- Risk Response Matrix/Pugh Matrix
- Performance Tracking and Technical Performance Measurement
- Risk Reviews and Audits
- Other Common Techniques
Glossary
Appendix A: Contractor Risk Management
Appendix B: An Abbreviated List of Risk Sources
Appendix C: Basic Probability Concepts
Appendix D: Quantifying Expert Judgment
Appendix E: Special Notes on Software Risk