Risk Management for Projects, Programmes and Operations
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Understanding risk management in project management is a key skill required of all project managers. In this project risk management training course, you learn how to identify, measure, and analyse risks in projects of all sizes and scopes, and how to ensure the success of your projects from beginning to end by quantifying and creating a project risk management plan.
You Will Learn How To
- Manage risk to deliver initiatives that meet stakeholder needs
- Apply scalable templates for your initiative with Risk Management Plans, Risk Registers, and Risk Assessment Matrixes
- Leverage a proven qualitative risk-analysis process to guide your risk management decisions
Important Course Information
Recommended experience:
- Project management experience at the level of:
- Course 296, Project Management: Skills for Success, or
- Course 340, Project Management for Software Development
Course Outline
- Overview of Risk Management
- Recognising risks in initiatives
- Using risk management best practices, tools and techniques to achieve project success
- Designing Critical Platforms for Success
Creating a Risk Management Plan (RMP)
- Analysing contents of a model RMP
- Applying a standard template to create your RMP
Identifying initiative risk
- Common sources of initiative risk
- Utilising checklists
- Creating Ishikawa diagrams to analyse cause and effect
- Assessing high-level risks to the organisation
Developing a Risk Register
- Analysing contents of a model Risk Register
- Applying a proven template to create your Risk Register
- Communicating risks to stakeholders
- Documenting risks for future assessment
- Improving Initiative Performance through Qualitative Analysis
Analysing risks through qualitative measures
- Performing probability and impact analyses
- Applying the probability and impact matrix
- Advanced applications of qualitative analysis
Prioritising analysis results
- Ranking project and operations risks
- Differentiating between acceptable and unacceptable risks
- Analysing Risks Using Quantitative Methods
Quantifying effects of risk events on projects and operations
- Determining probability of cost and time objectives
- Calculating contingency reserves
- Identifying trends in quantitative analysis
- Ranking risks by actuarial cost
Tools for analysis
- Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
- Three-point estimates
- Probability distributions
- Delphi Technique
- Simulation
- Risk Response Planning
Implementing risk response strategies
- Accept
- Avoid
- Transfer
- Mitigate
- Exploit
- Share
- Enhance
- Quantifying residual risks and secondary responses
Creating contingency plans
- Determining the worst-case scenario
- Recalculating confidence levels
- Finalising risk budget
- Applying a seven-step process to risk response planning
- Making Decisions under Uncertainty
Psychological factors in decision-making
- Practical applications of Prospect Theory
- Recognising bias with Utility Theory
Tools to enhance objectivity
- Maximising returns through the use of payoff tables
- Dealing with unknown risks using workarounds
- Monitoring and Controlling Risk
Identifying emerging risks
- Matching identified initiative risk with controls including Risk Audit, Variance Reports and Reserve Analysis
- Anticipating risk events through risk triggers
- Measuring risk using earned value analysis (EVA)
Ensuring effective change control
- Developing a reliable change request process
- Recommending corrective action
- Leveraging Project and Operations Experience
- Compiling lessons learned in a risk database
- Ensuring continual process improvement
Convenient Ways to Attend This Instructor-Led Course
Hassle-Free Enrolment: No advance payment required to reserve your seat.
Tuition Fee due 30 days after you attend your course.
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In the Classroom — OR — Live, Online
Tuition Fee — Standard: £2095
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13 - 16 Nov
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Tuition Fee
Course Tuition Fee Includes:
Training Hours
Standard class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest:
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
AFTERNOON START class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Last day class hours:
2:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Free Course Exam – Last Day:
8:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Each class day:
Informal discussion with instructor about your projects or areas of special interest
9:30 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.
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Earn 23 PDUs
PMI, the Registered Education Provider logo, PMP, CAPM, PMI-ACP,
and PMBOK are marks of the Project Management Institute, Inc.
This course is approved by PMI® for 23 professional development units (PDUs). For more on the Project Management Institute and a full list of courses approved for PDUs.
Technical : 13 PDUs
Business & Strategic : 10 PDUs