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Project Risk
Management
Project Risk
Management is a subset of project management that includes the
processes concerned with identifying, analyzing, and responding to
project risk. It consists of risk identification, risk
quantification, risk response development, and risk response
control. Project Risk Management is the continuous identification,
reporting, analysis, prioritization, monitoring, and control of
internal and external activities, conditions and/or events that can
cause an undesirable project impact. Project Risk Management is an
independent process that reviews the health and viability of a
project.
Why Do Project
Risk Management? Project Risk Management is an essential best
practice that supports sound business, program management and
engineering processes. Project Risk Management allows management to
be PROACTIVE rather than REACTIVE and enables open and honest
communication among all stakeholders, both internal and external to
an organization. Project Risk Management is a continuous process
that requires a sponsor to champion the cause and a facilitator to
coordinate and execute the process. Project Risk Management must
involve all members of the team and must become integral part of
your daily business and engineering
activities.
Project Risk
Management is the art and science of identifying, assigning, and
responding to risk throughout the life of a project and in the best
interests of meeting project objectives. Project Risk Management is
often overlooked on projects, but it can help improve project
success by helping select good projects, determining project scope,
and developing realistic estimates. The goal of project risk
management is to minimize potential risks while maximizing potential
opportunities. Major
processes include:
- Risk
identification:
determining which risks are likely to affect a
project
- Risk
quantification:
evaluating risks to assess the range of possible project
outcomes
- Risk response
development: taking
steps to enhance opportunities and developing responses to
threats
- Risk response
control: responding
to risks over the course of the
project
Project Risk
Management (PRM) is a means of improving the likelihood that a
project will be completed on time and on budget, combined with
mechanisms for mitigating risks uncovered during the risk
assessment.
Benefits of
Project Risk Management:
- Project
completion date and cost are reported as probability
distributions, rather than single values, enabling the project
manager to assess the likelihood of completing the project on time
and on budget;
- Major risks
to the project are identified, assessed in terms of the potential
impact on the project, & mitigative actions developed where
necessary;
- Facilitated
risk identification workshops aid in team building and
communication among project groups;
- Project Risk
Management is a mean of demonstrating due diligence on the part o
the project team to the stakeholders.
- The Project
Risk Management is performed by impartial third party
experts.
Project Risk
Management seeks to anticipate and address uncertainties that
threaten the goals and timetables of a project. The uncertainties
may include questions of material and parts quality; delays in
delivery of sufficient materials to meet project needs; budgetary
and personnel changes; and, incomplete knowledge or research. These
risks lead rapidly to delays in delivery dates and budget overages
that can severely undermine confidence in the project and in the
project manager. Since Project Risk Management is process oriented,
it remains possible to have a successful project and an unsuccessful
product (for example, an office construction project that meets or
beats all time, budgetary, and quality requirements yet opens in a
depressed real estate market.) While any project accepts a certain
level of risk, regular and rigorous risk analysis and risk
management techniques serve to defuse problems before they
arise.
There are two
stages in the process of Project Risk Management, Risk Assessment
and Risk Control. Risk Assessment can take place at any time during
the project, though the sooner the better. However, Risk Control
cannot be effective without a previous Risk Assessment. Similarly,
most people tend to think that having performed a Risk Assessment;
they have done all that is needed. Far too many projects spend a
great deal of effort on Risk Assessment and then ignore Risk control
completely.
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- Ensuring you
have the necessary equipment and resources available
- Properly
documenting all project activities
- Identifying staff skills by roles needed
- Putting
quality controls in place
- Identifying
and estimating indirect costs
- Documenting
and prioritizing requirements
- And much more
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