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Project Risk Management: Processes, Techniques and Insights (2nd Revised edition) ISBN: 0470853557 ISBN13: 9780470853559 Project Risk Management: Processes, Techniques and Insights (2nd Revised edition) By: Chris Chapman ; Stephen Ward Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd Format: Hardback Our Price: 24.13 Discount: 29% RRP: 33.99

Based on sound conceptual foundations yet developed to meet practical concerns, Project Risk Management has become recognized as a standard work on its subject. It sets out the key issues and concepts involved in effective risk and uncertainty management in a clear and accessible way, providing a comprehensive discussion of risk management processes set firmly in the context of the project management task as a whole and focused on improving performance. The Second Edition has been extensively revised and updated to meet the new challenges of the field, and offers methodologies and techniques that are applicable to all kinds and all sizes of project.


Contents:

Foreword to the first edition

 Foreword to the second edition

 Preface

 Acknowledgements

 Part I: Setting the scene

 1

Uncertainty, risk, and their management

 2

The project life cycle

 3

Motives for formal risk management processes

 4

An overview of generic risk management processes

 Part II: Elaborating the generic process framework

 5

Define the project

 6

Focus the process

 7

Identify the issues

 8

Structure the issues

 9

Clarify ownership

 10

Estimate variability

 11

Evaluate overall implications

 12

Harness the plans

 13

Manage implementation

 Part III: Closing the loop

 14

Risk management initiated at different stages in the project life cycle

 15

Effective and efficient risk management

 16

Ownership issues: a contractor perspective

 17

Organizing for risk management

 References

 Index.


Brief Description:

Sets out the key issues and concepts involved in effective risk and uncertainty management. This work provides a comprehensive discussion of risk management processes set firmly in the context of the project management task as a whole and focused on performance.

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