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In today’s world of project driven work, risk management has never been so important. However as projects face increasing pressure to hit deadlines and budgets allow for fewer and fewer errors Project Risk Management is often one of the easiest aspects of a project to cut or ignore. Ironically, this in turn leads to a greater chance of disaster as projects continue to rocket past deadlines and exceed set budgets.
We have created this site to provide you with the resources you'll need to effectively manage project risk and deliver your project's on time. We do this by covering both the theoretical and practical application of risk management, providing you opportunities to communicate with your peers, and provide you with tools, templates and samples of risk management plans, risk response plans, registers, analysis worksheets and more.
Free Access:
No sign up is required to access our forums and see what your peers and other experts are saying. In addition to read access to the forums, you will be able to access our basic downloads including templates and worksheets for:
- Risk Management Plans
- Risk Registers
- Issue Logs
- Impact and Probability Prioritization Worksheets
- Impact and Probability Matrix
- More...
Premium Content:
 Managing project risk effectively is absolutely key to project success.
Keep reading, or click on the image to see the benefits of joining us here at the Project Risk Management Institute.
You will gain:
- Control of your projects.
- Peace of mind knowing project risk is under your control.
- A competitive advantage by decreasing project variance and increasing the probability of project success.
- Confidence in your team's ability to execute on projects as more and more of them come in on time and on budget.
- A reputation for being one step ahead by being prepared when, and often before a risk is realized.
- A collection of templates, worksheets and course material that are yours to download and keep for as long as you need them.
You will learn how to:
- Create risk management plans that work.
- Develop strategies to analyze project risk.
- Effectively use of a risk register starting with templates provided within this site.
- Identify risks before they happen.
- Create risk response strategies to deliver projects that meet your stakeholder's needs.
- Qualify risks so you're dealing with the most probable, most dangerous risks first.
- Quantify risks so you can accurately identify and communicate risk exposure.
- Monitor risk triggers so you can better control hidden dangers that can derail your project.
Who this content is for:
- Managers, Project Managers, Team Leads, Project Coordinators, Business Analysts and Risk Management Professionals.
- Anyone serious about gaining control of the risks that affect their projects.
- Anyone who has a stake in seeing their projects through to completions, on time and on budget.
Premium membership includes:
- Ongoing access to an ever-growing repository of premium templates, worksheets, samples and courses that you can access from anywhere, anytime.
- The ability to network with your peers by asking and answering questions in our forums. Rights to ask or answer questions on these forums is restricted to premium members which ensures high quality in that only those serious to risk management can contribute.
- Access to project management professionals who can help answer your questions and jump hurdles on your path to project success.
- Courses that are reserved from premium members.
Premium member courses include:
Project Risk Management: An Overview
- What is Project Risk Management and what are the benefits of effectively managing risk.
- Responsibilities of the Project Manager, Project Team, Stakeholders and others when dealing with risk.
- An introduction to risk management artifacts including risk management plans, risk registers and more.
- Common terms used within risk management.
- Differentiating between risks and assumptions, and threat and opportunities.
Plan Risk Management
- The role of a risk management plan and how to create yours.
- Templates to get you started and tutorials based upon these templates so they are easy to follow.
- Insight on how to develop your plan including how much work to do before meeting with your team and stakeholders and just as importantly, which sections to not develop until you've met your team and stakeholders.
- How to develop risk categories and how it can help in assigning roles and responsibilities.
- How to schedule and budget for the risk management process.
- How to determine stakeholder tolerance.
Identifying Risk
- Information gathering techniques including effective brainstorming, root cause identification and SWOT analysis.
- Use of checklists that will not only help your current project but make subsequent projects even better.
- Diagramming techniques including cause and effect, process flow and influence diagrams.
- How to develop a risk register; the backbone to your risk tracking efforts.
Qualitative Risk Analysis
- Perform probability and impact assessments.
- Creating probability and impact matrices and how to apply them to identified risks.
- Prioritizing risk based on analysis.
Quantitative Risk Analysis
- Quantifying the effects of risk on your project.
- Modeling techniques including expected monetary value, decision tree analysis and others.
- Probability distributions.
- Adjusting prioritization and identifying urgent risks.
Risk Response Planning
- Contingency planning and how to handle worst case scenarios.
- Handling threats through avoidance, transference, mitigation and acceptance.
- Handling opportunities through acceptance, exploitation, sharing, enhancing.
Monitoring and Controlling Risk Management
- Ongoing risk identification.
- Reassessing and auditing risk management.
- Varience and trend analysis.
- Measuring technical performance.
- Creating change requests, corrective action recommendations and preventative action recommendations.
Benefits of Joining and Learning with the Project Risk Management Institute
Our course, content and community are developed with you in mind. As project management professionals ourselves, we grew tired of the same old courses being presented over and over. Courses that were static and only offered access to expertise for the duration of the program. This is why we've decided to combine the expert knowledge of a professional course with the interactivity of an ongoing community of professionals.
- Superior course design: to enhance the courses, we will provide video presentations, templates and .pdf handouts to ensure the knowledge is being provided in as many forms as possible.
- Many areas will include interactive diagrams, charts and other tools to further enhance the course and engage the mind. These are also great tools for quickly referencing ideas and topics without having to retake an entire course.
- Due to our course designs, you will benefit from a higher retention of knowledge and continuous access to content.
- You will be able to connect with others who are taking the course or have taken the course, as well as connect with our own experts for advise specific to your needs.
- Network with other professionals and share your own ideas, samples and templates and be recognized for your expertise in the field.
- Have ongoing access to new content, templates, samples and activities as they are developed.
- Locked in membership. Our goal is to make this site the definitive resource for risk management which means it will continue to grow as a resource and continue to grow in value. This growth will be reflected in the membership costs, but once you've signed up, your membership will NEVER increase in price. This is our way of saying thank you for being part of the journey.
- A voice: We have developed a wide range of content that will cover everything you need to know to get your project risks under control, be we also recognize that there will be scenarios and topics that you would like more in depth coverage on. Traditional courses have no means to provide this information but by joining us, we will hear what you have to say and put our expertise to work in developing additional course work and more resources to continuously improve and meet your needs and the value of this community.
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