Effective Risk Management: Some Keys to Success - Hardcover

E. H. Conrow

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1563473836 ISBN 13: 9781563473838

Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast, 2000

Synopsis

Risk management is an important skill that can be applied to a wide variety of projects. In an era of downsizing, consolidation, shrinking budgets, increasing technological sophistication, and shorter development times, risk management can provide valuable insights to help key project personnel plan for risks, alert them of potential risk issues, analyze these issues, and develop, implement, and monitor plans to address the issues long before the issues surface as problems and adversely project cost, performance, and schedule.

This important new text defines the steps to effective risk management and helps the reader create a viable risk management process and implement it on their specific project. It will also allow you to better evaluate an existing risk management process, find some of the shortfalls, and develop and implement needed enhancements.

The book helps fill a void that exists in the project risk management literature on desirable risk management process characteristics and considerations for tailoring and implementing the process on a particular project. The material illustrates attributes and practices of sound risk management that can readily be used by both project management and technical practitioners, as well as others that are less familiar with the subject.

Conrow presents more than 200 lessons learned and clearly stated tips that will help you successfully implement risk management, including things to do and traps to avoid, taken from his extensive experience working on a wide variety of projects over 20 years. This includes work performed as a risk management specialist and consultant on Air Force, Army, Navy, DoD, NASA, other government organization, and commercial projects; on hardware-intensive, software-intensive, and mixed projects, with life cycle dollar ranges from several million dollars to many billion dollars. Examples of erroneous risk management practices are given, along with insights to help the reader understand why the practice is flawed and improve their ability to detect other issues that may also be problematic.

Includes 200+ Tips for Sound Project Risk Management

Author: Dr. Edmund H. Conrow CMC, CPCM, PMP, email info@risk-services.com.

About this title

About the Author

Dr. Edmund H. Conrow is a risk management and project management consultant on hardware-intensive, software-intensive, and mixed projects, with life cycle dollar ranges from several million dollars to more than 100 billion dollars. He has developed risk management policy that is in widespread use across industry, government, and professional organizations, and has received numerous letters of commendation for his work. Dr. Conrow has served more than 20 times as a risk manager and mentor to risk managers where he was responsible on a daily basis for implementing and making risk management work on a wide variety of programs and proposals. His practice is focused on risk management, management strategy, cost as an independent variable, engineering design analysis, and technology assessment. He holds a B.S.N.E. and an M.S. in nuclear engineering; a M.Phil. in policy analysis; a Ph.D. in general engineering; and, a Ph.D. in policy analysis. Dr. Conrow is highly published in national journals and conferences, and his work has won awards at national conferences. He is a Certified Management Consultant (Institute of Management Consultants), a Certified Professional Consultant to Management (National Bureau of Certified Consultants), and a Project Management Professional (Project Management Institute).

Review

...must have resource for any large, complex program. -- Lawrence D. Pohlmann, Ph.D., Strategics Consulting

At last--a reference with all the practical tools...to perform the full range of risk management! -- Bill Bahnmaier, Colonel, USMC (Ret); former PM, Marine Corps Assault Amphibian Program and recent Professor, Defense Acquisition University

Edition details

• Publisher: AIAA (American Institute of Aeronautics & Ast
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1563473836
• ISBN 13: 9781563473838
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 338