What should a good risk management process cover? Any project manager undertaking a risky or important venture should ask themselves these...
Using Six Value Medals to identify risk
Edward de Bono is famous for promoting creative thinking, and he has written many books to explain his radical ideas. Perhaps his best...
Kill the risk manager?
I once read an article titled 'Ten Top Tips for Effective Risk Management'. Tip number 4 was “Kill the Risk Manager”! But the author was...
Best practice risk management for IT projects
Today’s IT projects usually represent a major deliverable of a wider enterprise program and their success or failure can have a massive...
Top 5 legal responses to project risks
As a project manager, you certainly appreciate the importance of assessing risk carefully, assigning it to the party that is most likely...
How risky is your project?
Have you ever been asked “How risky is your project?” Most project managers find it hard to answer this question. Your Risk Register lists...
7 steps to analysing risk via Monte Carlo
Monte Carlo simulation is the most common way to analyse risk using numbers. But many people view quantitative risk analysis as too...
How to deal with risk sentinels
One of the key components of risk management and stakeholder management is the routine reassessment of the stakeholder community and the...
The double life of risk
International risk standards and guidelines such as ISO31000:2009 define risk as a double-sided concept. This includes the possibility of...
Adding sustainability to the risk framework
Sustainability has become increasingly important to organisations across the world in recent years, as both a business objective and a...









