Project Manager s Spotlight on Risk Management was written for those of you who want to know more about project risk and how to take advantage of the opportunities risk presents or about how to reduce or eliminate the impact it has on your project.

This book explores risks and risk management from a practical, hands-on approach. It will equip you with questions to ask, tools and techniques to implement, checklists to use, and templates to apply to your projects immediately.

This book has a lot of examples of the types of risks that can plague your project. Reading this book will help you identify risks on projects that you may not have thought of before. It will walk you through how to identify those risks and what to do about them should they occur.

Reading this book will give you a solid foundation in risk management practices. From here, you can build on this knowledge by taking project management classes, reading other books in this series or on this topic, and networking with others in your organization. This book is based on the project management guidelines recommended by the Project Management Institute (PMI), and many of the terms, concepts, and processes you ll read about in this book are based on the PMI publication A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide).This book assumes you have some hands-on project management experience and some familiarity with project management terms and processes as described in A Guide to...