Effective Project Risk Management In The Real World

About this White Paper

I first gave this keynote in 2008 to the Bristol chapter of the British Computer Society.  This risk management white paper is free to download (registration required).

Summary

The UK now spends more than £22Bn each year on IT projects.  Most of these will be late or over budget and many will be cancelled before completion.  For each project that fails there are people working as hard as they can and as well as they can.  The thing that keeps them awake at night is the knowledge that, at the end of the day, the culmination of all this effort will be yet another project failure.

If, like me, you’ve ever lost out on promotion, or received a smaller bonus than you deserved, or missed an important family event because of a failing or failed project, then what I have to say is something that you have to hear.

Other Risk Management White Papers in this series:

The Business Case For Project Risk Management

This briefing paper for senior managers spells out the benefits of improving your company’s project risk management skills.  This White Paper was published in March 2010

Are You Making These Risk Management Mistakes?

This talk was delivered at the Association for Project Management’s KnowledgeShare 2010 event in May 2010.  It identifies the top people, process and communication mistakes that cripple most projects and outlines a successful formula for dealing with them.

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