Project Risk Audits: What you need to know
Discover the benefits of risk audits and how they can help you manage projects more effectively. Learn when to use a risk audit, who does it, and what happens during one.
Risk and issue management
Learn the tips and tricks for managing project risks and issues effectively. Plus how to manage project issues.
Book Review: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management
Risk meetings don’t have to be boring, although in my experience they often are. A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management is a book that specifically addresses how to get the best out of your risk management meetings. This book, by Ruth Murray-Webster and Penny Pullan, provides practical guidance on facilitating risk workshops, and making…
Book review: Risk Happens
Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. It enables you to manage the project more effectively and work towards a smooth outcome. So what exactly is project risk…
How to help your team manage project risk
Here’s how project managers can help their teams manage project risk effectively, so that everyone benefits from effective risk management.
How To Solve Issues The Sherlock Holmes Way
Find out why resolving issues on projects is like the work Sherlock Holmes does in the Conan Doyle stories. Learn how you can use the techniques of the great detective to sort out problems on your projects quickly.
5 Common Roadblocks on Projects (And What To Do About Them)
These are 5 common project roadblocks along with tips on how to address them, so you can take action now to address any challenges before they become too big to handle.
14 Common Project Risks (+ more)
In this article we’ll look at common project risks so you can start filling up your risk log and making the right plans.
Project Risk Management: A How-To Guide (with tips)
Risk management is a staple skill of project managers. As the project environments we work in get more and more complex, with greater levels of uncertainty and more transformative, disruptive projects, being able to deal with risk remains top of the list of desirable skills for managers in all areas of business. However, project risk…
How to Select Your Risk Responses
Harry Hall explains how to select your risk responses in project management including selecting the criteria and applying it.
6 Easy Ways to Manage Group Think and Risk at Work
Dr. Mike Clayton gives some great advice on managing group think and risk at work in this guest article.
Risk management doesn’t have to be difficult
“We try to convey the earnesty and legitimacy of risk management by communicating as if it were a science,” said Mark Engelhardt, senior lecturer at IIL, during his presentation at PMI Hungary’s Art of Projects conference last week. “The problem is that risk management is far from being a science in most of our industries.”…
Talking about risk: interview with Wilhelm Kross (part 2)
Recently I spoke to risk expert Dr Wilhlem Kross about risk communication and the challenges facing project managers talking about risk. Here is the second part of that interview, in which Wilhelm and I talk about how project managers can best communicate about risk on their projects. Wilhelm, you talked about how sometimes people communicating…