Project Risk Management

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

John F. Ehlers received his BSEE and MSEE from the University of Missouri and did his doctoral work at the George Washington University, majoring in fields and waves and minoring in information theory. A private trader since 1976, he is currently President of MESA Software (www.mesasoftware.com) and author of Rocket Science for Traders (Wiley) as well as numerous articles for Futures and Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities magazines. He has now expanded the scope of his contributions to technical analysis through the application of scientific digital signal processing techniques.Stephen Ward is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Management of the University of Southampton. Much of his research is consultancy based, giving him a broad spectrum of practical experience across a wide range of organizations over several decades. He combines this practical perspective with a thorough conceptual understanding from which to write. He has published widely, including contributions to Management for Engineers (Wiley 1987), joint authorship of Project Risk Management: Processes, Techniques and Insights, (Wiley, 1997), and joint authorship of Managing Project Risk and Uncertainty: A Constructively Simple Approach to Decision Making, (Wiley 2002). He is the founding director of Southampton's MSc in Risk Management.