This project management toolkit book is about providing you easy to understand step by step how to do project risk planning
Project risk is neither good nor bad, it's just stuff that happens or may happen. With this book you get what you need to construct your own simple and easy to use project risk management tools. If you want to save some time and effort you can download my really inexpensive for sale tools. To help you get started there's a free download template with this book. It's a basic project planner template populated with a set of project initiation activities/tasks. The template also includes a set project risk planning work items.
To do a project risk plan you need to have some idea of how likely it is something will happen and the project risk impact if it does happen. I'll give you a project risk plan example or two along the way. This and easy to use tools will help you put together your project risk management plan.
Here's the thing about project risk. If certain stuff happens, and you didn't take it in account in your planning, there's a good chance that something will turn out worse than it should have. The next thing you know time and money are being poured down a recovery rat hole. All because of something you should have thought about ahead of time and planned to deal with if/when it happened.
Risk planning and management for a project ain't rocket science. Granted you stand a better chance of success if you have a handle the basic concepts. Having a few tools in your kit might be helpful as well but here's pretty much what it's all about:
- Recognize that there may be uncertainty about the occurrence of future events or their effect on the project,
- think about what could happen and what you might be able to do about it, and
- put together, and implement if necessary, a plan to do something about it.
This book is for, among others:
- Someone with little or no project management experience
- Someone with enough experience to know they need help - additional things for their project management toolkit
- Small businesses and organizations - project management templates and methods geared towards your low cost, low maintenance needs