Herding Cats

Here’s my ongoing collection of Risk Management briefings and papers:

• Risk Management – discusses the importance of risk management in project management, highlighting that it is essential to project success across methodologies such as agile and waterfall.
• Probabilistic Schedule and Cost Analysis – provides an overview of probabilistic risk analysis processes applicable to scheduling and cost forecasting within program management.
• Applying Risk Radar to High-Risk Technology Projects – defines key risk management terms like risk, uncertainty, likelihood, and consequences.
• Managing Risk with Deliverables Planning – introduces the five principles of risk management and outlines the CRM process, which includes identifying risks, analyzing and prioritizing them, planning mitigations, tracking mitigation progress and risks, making decisions based on risk data, and communicating throughout the project.
• Increasing the Probability of Project Success – the principles and practices for increasing the probability of project success by managing risk from uncertainty.
• Increasing the Probability of Project Success – the principles and practices for increasing the probability of project success by managing risk from uncertainty. (updated)
• Five Easy Pieces: The Essentials of Managing Programmatic Risk – managing programmatic risk in project management, emphasizing that hope should not be a strategy.
• CMP-200F: Technical Risk Management – importance of technical risk management in projects, emphasizing the need for a systematic process that involves identifying, analyzing, and responding to risks to enhance project performance.
• Increasing the Probability of Program Success – outlines a framework for managing enterprise IT and software-intensive systems, emphasizing the importance of defining what ‘done’ looks like and integrating various management disciplines.
• Lunch and Learn: Risk Management on a Well-Known Project -applied in the context of the Wright brothers’ project to develop a heavier-than-air flying machine under an Army contract.
• Getting it Done and Some Issues Along the Way