RISK happens!
Things go wrong: Risk Happens!
But you can be prepared.
Risk Happens!
Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects
2nd Edition: Revised and Enlarged
No matter how closely manage your projects, things will not always go as you planned them: Risk Happens!
So how, then, can you anticipate and handle the risks inherent in any project?
The key to delivering great results in today's increasingly uncertain and volatile business world is to actively manage the risks. Risk Happens! gives insights and practical tools to managers and project managers at all levels, who are charged with leading change, staying on budget, delivering to schedule, and serving their clients or organisations.
Learn how you can prepare for risks and possible crises, with practical tools, techniques, and templates. Risk Happens! will explain risk potential reviews, risk registers, critical paths, SWOT analysis, the Delphi method, and a whole load of other powerful ideas.
The book is filled with useful diagrams, handy tips, and easy-to-understand tables. Together, they create a practical and systematic approach to project risk management. For anyone who needs to lead a project or undertake a new venture, Risk Happens! is essential reading.
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A Second Edition...
It’s been ten years since I wrote this book, and I am still proud of it. However, a year after its first publication, the original publishers, Marshal Cavendish Business withdrew entirely from the UK, European, and US markets. Their choice to focus solely on the Asian market left my book without any marketing and distribution support.
As warehoused copies ran down, my readers, YouTube subscribers, conference participants, and OnlinePMCourses community found they could no longer get copies.
That was a risk I had not foreseen!
So, earlier this year, I started negotiations to recover the rights to my two books that I had written for Marshall Cavendish. The second, by the way, was not even distributed in the UK, where I live and it was commissioned. Between confirmation of proofs and the books being printed, the UK business was gone.
The good news for me – and for you, dear reader – is that Marshall Cavendish was very gracious in reverting the rights with minimal administration.
So, I have been able to prepare this second edition.
It is not much different to the first. However, I have taken the opportunity to correct a few minor typographical errors and add some new content. Principally, the new content is in chapters 5 and 6 and in the new Appendix B.
But my prevailing impression is that this book has held up well over the last 10 years. I wrote it for an audience of project managers with enough experience to know that a single book chapter or an hour or so of a training course is not enough to truly get all the best risk management knowledge. But, likewise, it is not written for seasoned veterans who already have a sophisticated understanding of project risk. To them, I recommend Edmund Conrow’s magnificent book listed in Appendix D.
Risk Happens!
Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects
2nd Edition: Revised and Enlarged
Risk Happens!
Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects
2nd Edition: Revised and Enlarged