How to manage project opportunity and risk : why uncertainty management can be a much better approach than risk management

Chapman, C. B.

How to manage project opportunity and risk : why uncertainty management can be a much better approach than risk management - 3rd ed. - Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2011. - xxvi, 492 p. ;

Rev. ed. of : Project risk management, c 2003.

pt. 1. Setting the scene --
1. Uncertainty in and around projects --
2. Uncertainty, risk and opportunity --
3. Key motives for uncertainty management --
4. An overview of generic process frameworks --
pt. 2. The generic process in one key lifecycle stage --
5. Define the project --
6. Focus the process --
7. Identify all the relevant sources of uncertainty, response options and conditions --
8. Structure all uncertainty --
9. Clarify ownership --
10. Quantify some uncertainty --
11. Evaluate all the relevant implications --
pt. 3. The generic process in all lifecycle stages --
12. Fully integrating the strategy shaping stages --
13. Fully integrating the strategy implementation stages --
pt. 4. Key corporate implications --
14. Developing PUMP capability as a project --
15. Contracts and governance as frameworks for enlightened relationship management --
16. A corporate capability perspective.

"Based on a sound conceptual foundation yet developed to meet practical concerns, Project Risk Management has become recognized as a standard work on its subject"--

9780470686492 (hardback)


Project management.
Risk management.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management.

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