Practical Project Risk Management, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

Contents

Foreword to the Third Edition

Authors’ Preface

PART I: The Problem

1   The Challenge of Managing Risk

Risk—The Definition Debate

Clarifying Some Confusions

Using Risk Management on Projects

Benefits of Effective Risk Management

2   Making It Work

Why Don’t We Do It?

Turning Negatives into Positives

Four Difficult Challenges

The Critical Success Factors for Risk Management

Conclusion

3   Active Threat and Opportunity Management—The ATOM Risk Process

Introducing ATOM

Project Sizing

ATOM for the Medium-Sized Project

Comparison to Existing Standards

Conclusion

PART II: Applying ATOM to a Medium-Sized Project

4   Start at the Beginning (Initiation)

Inputs

Activities

Outputs

Summary

5   Exposing the Challenge (Identification)

Inputs

Activities ...