Overview
Risk is a key issue for every project manager. How the various risks are handled can often define the final outcome of a project; it can determine its overall worth to both sponsors and contractors and its ultimate success or failure.Alan Webb's The Project Manager's Guide to Handling Risk is a concise, practical guide to the process for every project manager. Starting from an explanation of how our current ideas of risk have evolved, the author:
o introduces the nature of risk and the basis of risk analysis; o explores how and where different patterns of risk emerge within the life of a project, and o explains the variety of tools and techniques for risk analysis and management and shows how to use them.
The book also provides a comprehensive assessment of the current range of software tools that deals with the various aspects of risk management. Included with The Project Manager's Guide to Handling Risk is a free CD-ROM containing samples of available software packages.
Synopsis
Webb, a project management consultant, offers a practical guide to the process of handling risk in this book/CD-ROM package for project managers. He introduces the nature of risk and the basis of risk analysis, then explores how and where different patterns of risk emerge within the life of a project, and describes the variety of tools and techniques for risk analysis and management and how to use them. He also provides an assessment of the current range of software tools that deal with various aspects of risk management. The CD-ROM contains samples of available software packages. The book is distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR