Project Management

How do I conduct risk management on my project?

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Contract Risk Review

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If you're about to enter into a contract, you need to understand the risks involved. Thoughtful pre-contract preparation, review and follow-up will go a long way toward keeping your company out of legal hot water.

Risk Analysis/Resolution Matrix

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The Risk Analysis/Resolution Matrix offers a structured view of project risks, their potential impact on the project, plan to mitigate each, and their final resolution. The matrix is meant to be a living document, to be updated periodically throughout the life of the project. It is prepopulated with 30 risks common to many projects, giving you a solid starting point that you can use to make it your own.

Project Closeout Checklist

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by Kenneth Darter, PMP

While there are some subtle differences in closing a project with a party or a wake, a carefully defined checklist will help with either ending to the project. This checklist should be defined early on in the project and communicated to everyone who will have input into the checklist at the end of the project.

Risk Management Principles and Approach of a Project Management Office

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Not only is this document a practical lesson in the principles and approach of a project management office (hopefully, yours!), but it could also double as boilerplate verbage for the risk assessment section of responses to RFPs as well as reports to the client.

Risk Management Plan

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This 23 point, 5 page risk management plan addresses 6 categories of project risk. It is particularly good for non-technical projects. It's simple, yet solid approach enables you to create a thoughtful and defensible risk management plan within a short timeframe.

Risk Management Worksheet

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Use this worksheet to spell out, analyze and respond to risks in your projects. We've filled in some sample fields to get you started.

Risk Management Grid

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by Doug DeCarlo, Principal, The Doug DeCarlo Group

The Risk Management Grid is a technique to identify potential risk events that could impact one of more of the project’s Seven Win Conditions. Importantly, it also serves to decide how those events will be prevented or mitigated.

Project Post-Implementation Survey

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Implementation has taken place. Now it's time to ask your client as well as your project team some burning questions: What worked well? What could have been done better? What recommendations do you have for future projects?

Risk Status Template

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by Andy Jordan

When reporting project risks to management over time, use this template to stay on top of every potential problem. This provides a tool for reporting on risk management activities and adds to the fields created during risk identification.

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