Leadership needed for risk management There’s a difference between knowing what the risks are and managing them, as Martin Vaughan discovers, and it’s up to PMOs to understand and guide others on how to handle risk in their overall strategy. March 21, 2013 Project Management Office Risk
Who keeps your project on track? The way projects operate can sometimes look chaotic from the outside. Hell, it can look chaotic from the inside too. That’s where project governance comes in, notes editor Adeline Teoh. November 19, 2012 Blogs
What my time machine taught me about project contingency If you’re doing things the right way, you will have mapped out all the likely negative risks in your latest project and devised cunning contingency plans. But do you have a Plan B for your contingency? asks editor Adeline Teoh. September 25, 2012 Blogs
A reality check for project managers Are you ignoring reality in your project planning? Editor Adeline Teoh on how sleeping knee-to-knee with six Slovaks on a train showed her the gap between plans and execution. August 28, 2012 Blogs
Distributed versus consolidated project contingencies Distributed contingencies are normal in most aspects of project management but often result in sub-optimal use of resources. Pat Weaver looks at how consolidated contingency may be a better option. July 11, 2012 Cost Risk
Managing risk and contingency I was recently interviewing a risk management specialist and was intrigued to find that although he had a huge amount of knowledge about risk and issues management, he had very little knowledge of contingency. November 16, 2011 Blogs