Increasing Performance through Project Risk Management

Course Overview

Proactively identifying and controlling risk greatly increases the accuracy of the project’s scope, schedule, and budget, as well as reduces the amount of time the team spends putting out fires. This course, based on PMI®’s PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition, focuses on improving the project manager’s risk management expertise, from initial planning through project closure. Participants apply all course principles to a real-world case study of their choosing.

Course Length

2 days (14 contact hours)

Target Audience

This course is intended for:

· Project managers, project team leads, and project team members (with or without a currently-active PMI certification) who want to gain a deeper understanding of and hands-on experience with project risk management tools, techniques, and outputs, as documented in the PMBOK® Guide, Sixth Edition.

· Professionals who hold current PMP®, PgMP®, or other PMI credentials, who wish to earn Professional Development Units (PDUs) to maintain their PMI certification.

This course is not intended as direct preparation for any PMI certification exam.

Prerequisites

To ensure that you benefit fully from this course, you should have experience managing, leading, or contributing to projects. A PMI project-management credential such as PMP® or CAPM® is recommended but not required.

Author

Brian Salk, PhD, PMP®, PMI-ACP®, has over 30 years of experience, specializing in hands-on traditional and agile project management, training, and consulting. He manages a variety of consulting and training programs and projects for his organization and for a number of Fortune 500 customers. His global clientele includes organizations in North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East. In addition to authoring courses, Dr. Brian frequently delivers project-management certification training (e.g., PMP®) and project-management best practices training. He is a four-time winner of the prestigious Worldwide Excellence in Training award from a global training organization, recognizing the 25 highest-rated instructors from a network of over 2,400. Dr. Brian earned his PhD from Fielding Graduate University in the field of Human and Organizational Systems, with a focus on effective methodologies related to project management education, and his Masters of Arts (Education) from the University of Michigan.