Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations: A Strategic Guide to Portfolio, Program and PMO Success

Organizations invest a lot of time, money, and energy into developing and utilizing risk management practices as part of their project management disciplines. Yet, when you move beyond the project to the program, portfolio, PMO and even organizational level, that same level of risk command and control rarely exists. With this in mind, well-known subject matter expert and author Andy Jordan starts where most leave off. He explores risk management in detail at the portfolio, program, and PMO levels. Using an engaging and easy-to-read writing style, Mr. Jordan takes readers from concepts to a process model, and then to the application of that customizable model in the user's unique environment, helping dramatically improve their risk command and control at the organizational level. He also provides a detailed discussion of some of the challenges involved in this process. Risk Management for Project Driven Organizations is designed to aid strategic C-level decision makers and those involved in the project, program, portfolio, and PMO levels of an organization.

Andy Jordan, PMP, President of Roffensian Consulting Inc., an Ontario, Canada based management consulting firm, is a well-known author and expert on project management and related topics. His literary works have been printed in industry and corporate publications worldwide. Andy is a prolific writer with new articles appearing weekly on projectmanagement.com with an audience of nearly 600,000 IT project managers and executives; and for projectsatwork.com with an audience of more than 120,000 program and portfolio managers. He is also a sought-after speaker and moderator of in-person and web-delivered events for private clients and industry associations, and is an accomplished instructor on project management, risk management, leadership and communication related subjects. Mr. Jordan has assisted organizations in all aspects of portfolio, program and project execution as well as PMO structure and process. His successful track record includes managing business-critical projects, programs and portfolios in Europe and North America, in industries as diverse as investment banking, software development, call centers, telecommunications and corporate education. He also developed an impressive reputation for turning around troubled project execution functions and delivering meaningful business results while maintaining and developing team performance and morale.