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Course title: Managing Risk
Duration: 2 days
Credits: 14 PDUs (Professional Development Units)

Description: Managing Project Risk is a holistic approach to planning, identifying and managing risk. Central to successful risk management is communications

Continuous Risk Management

Function Description
Organize Prepare for how risks will be  identified, categorized, prioritized and managed
Identify Search for and locate risks before they become problems
Analyze Transform risk data into decision-making information. Evaluate impact, probability, and timeframe, classify risks, and prioritize risks.
Plan Translate risk information into decisions and actions (both present and future) and implement those actions.
Track Monitor risk indicators and mitigation actions.
Control Correct for deviations from the risk mitigation plans.
Communicate Provide information and feedback internal and external to the project on the risk activities, current risks, and emerging risks.

Risk Management for Projects

This unique 2-day course will provide you with a real-world, step by step approach to using risk management that you can begin using as soon as you return to your project.

Managing Project Risk is designed to give the busy employee an understanding of the nature of risk, and provides them with the strategies and techniques for identifying, prioritizing, monitoring and controlling risk. Fully aligned with the project management standards identified by PMI (Project Management Institute), Project Risk Management uses experiential learning to make the course both informative and fun.

Through a two-day simulation, you manage a project. You use real-world tools and templates to actively plan for, and monitor and control project risk.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
xxx 1. Describe the risk management process.
  2. Apply risk management techniques to real-world projects.
  3. Explain to others why risk management is so important.
  4. Speed up their risk management efforts.
  5. Apply risk management techniques to determine the true cost and schedule for a project.
  6. Save time and money on projects while still in the project planning stage.
  7. Demonstrate the impact of successful projects to the organization.
  8. Interpret the risk management section of the PMBOK® Guide for everyday use.
  9. Avoid common risk management pitfalls.
  10. Use common project management terminology.
  11. Be more focused and proactive about preventing problems, rather than just dealing with them
.....as they occur.

Course Outline:

xxx Inputs To Risk Management
  xxx What do you need before you can effectively start risk management
How does risk management fit into the project management process
What risk management is and why can it make or break your career
  Applying Risk Management To Your Real World
  Risk Management Planning
    What is it and how to do it properly
Objectives of risk management planning
Common stumbling blocks
Steps for risk management planning
Expected outputs
  Applying Risk Management To Your Real World
  Risk Management Planning
    What is it and how to do it properly
Objectives of risk management planning
Common stumbling blocks
Steps for risk management planning
Expected outputs
  Identifying Risk
    Objectives
What is a well defined risk
The cause-risk-effect
Common stumbling blocks
Steps for risk identification
Expected outputs
  Analyzing Risk
    Prioritizing risks
How to do it
Probability and impact scales
How to determine what risks move forward
Common stumbling blocks
Steps for risk qualification
Expected outputs
Expected Monetary Value and its limitations
Common stumbling blocks
Steps for risk quantification
Expected outputs
  Responding to Risk
    Objectives
How to do it
Common stumbling blocks
Preventing risks
Preparing to deal with risks
Contingency and fallback plans
Risk owners
Residual risks
Secondary risks
Time and cost reserves
Risk response plans
Proving the value of your risk management efforts to your company
Steps for risk response planning
Expected outputs
  Risk Monitoring And Control
    Objectives
How to do it
Common stumbling blocks
Workarounds
Managing the reserves
Controlling the overall risk of the project
Reporting
Steps for risk response development
Expected outputs

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