TY - BOOK AU - Kendrick,Tom TI - Identifying and managing project risk : essential tools for failure-proofing your project SN - 9780814436080 (hardcover) U1 - 658.404 PY - 2015///] CY - New York : PB - American Management Association, KW - Risk management KW - Project management N1 - Includes indes; Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Why Project Risk Management? -- Doomed Project -- Risk -- Opportunities and Risks -- Benefits of Project Risk Management -- Costs of Project Risk Management -- Project Risk Management Process -- Anatomy of a Failed Project: The First Panama Canal Project -- ch. 2 Planning for Risk Management -- Project Selection -- Overall Project Planning Processes -- Defining Risk Management for the Project -- Risk Management Infrastructure for the Organization -- PERIL Database -- Second Panama Canal Project: Sponsorship and Initiation (1902 -- 1904) -- ch. 3 Identifying Project Scope Risk -- Sources of Scope Risk -- Defining Deliverables -- High-Level Risk Assessment Tools -- Setting Limits -- Work Breakdown Structure -- Other Scope-Related Risks -- Documenting the Risks -- Panama Canal: Setting the Objective (1905 -- 1906) -- ch. 4 Identifying Project Schedule Risk -- Sources of Schedule Risk -- Activity Definition -- Estimating Activity Duration -- Activity Sequencing -- Documenting the Risks -- Panama Canal: Planning (1905 -- 1907) -- ch. 5 Identifying Project Resource Risk -- Sources of Resource Risk -- Resource Planning -- Staff Acquisition -- Outsourcing -- Effort Estimates Adjusted for Risk -- Cost Estimates, Budgets, and Risk -- Documenting the Risks -- Panama Canal: Resources (1905 -- 1907) -- ch. 6 Managing Project Constraints and Documenting Risks -- Analyzing Constraints -- Managing Opportunities -- Scope Modification -- Resource Modification -- Schedule Modification -- Assessing Options and Updating Plans -- Seeking Missing Risks -- Creating a Risk Register -- Panama Canal: Improving the Plan (1906) -- ch. 7 Quantifying and Analyzing Activity Risks -- Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Analysis -- Probability and Impact -- Qualitative Risk Assessment -- Quantitative Risk Assessment -- Panama Canal: Risks (1906 -- 1914) -- ch. 8 Managing Activity Risks -- Root Cause Analysis -- Categories of Risk -- Selecting Risks to Address -- Risk Response Planning -- Dealing with Risk Causes -- Implementing Preventative Ideas -- Dealing with Risk Effects -- Documenting Your Risk Plans and Risk Owners -- Managing a Specific Risk -- Bow Tie Analysis for Documenting Risk Responses -- Panama Canal: Risk Plans (1906 -- 1914) -- ch. 9 Quantifying and Analyzing Project Risk -- Project-Level Risk -- Aggregating Risk Responses -- Project Modeling and Simulations -- Integrated Schedule/Cost Assessment -- System Analysis -- Critical Chain Considerations -- Questionnaires and Surveys -- Analysis of Scale -- Project Appraisal -- Scenario Analysis -- Project Metrics -- Financial Metrics -- Panama Canal: Overall Risks (1907) -- ch. 10 Managing Project Risk -- Project Documentation Requirements -- Project Start-Up -- Selecting and Implementing Project Metrics -- Establishing Reserves and Managing for Contingency -- Project Baseline Negotiation -- Project Plan Validation -- Specification Change Control -- Panama Canal: Adjusting the Objective (1907) -- ch. 11 Monitoring and Controlling Risky Projects -- Don't Panic -- Applying the Plan -- Project Monitoring -- Collecting Project Status -- Metrics and Trend Analysis -- Responding to Issues -- Communication and Risk Reporting -- Project Archive -- Managing Risk Reserves -- Project Reviews and Risk Reassessment -- Taking Over a Troubled Project -- Panama Canal: Risk-Based Replanning (1908) -- ch. 12 Closing Projects -- Project Closure -- Project Retrospective Analysis -- Panama Canal: Completion (1914) -- ch. 13 Program, Portfolio, and Enterprise Risk Management -- Project Risk Management in Context -- Program Risk Management -- Portfolio Risk Management -- Enterprise Risk Management -- Panama Canal: Over the Years -- ch. 14 Conclusion -- Choosing to Act -- Managing Your Risks -- Panama Canal: The Twenty-First Century -- Appendix: Selected Detail from the PERIL Database -- Scope Risks -- Schedule Risks -- Resource Risks N2 - Drawing on real-world situations and hundreds of examples, this book outlines the risk management process and provides proven methods for project risk planning. It helps readers to learn how to use high-level risk assessment tools, implement a system for monitoring and controlling projects, and properly document every consideration ER -