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Identifying and Managing Project Risk
Hardcover edition (2009)
AuthorTom Kendrick
LanguageEnglish
GenreBusiness, Project Management, Risk Management
PublisherAmerican Management Association
Publication date
25 April 2003
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages335 pp.
ISBN0-8144-0761-7
OCLC50803496
658.4/04 21
LC ClassHD61 .K46 2003

Identifying and Managing Project Risk by Tom Kendrick is a book about identifying and managing risks on projects. It was published on April 25, 2003 by American Management Association.

Overview

Kendrick's coverage of risk, and more prominently uncertainty, is complete in a general fashion focusing a majority of his discussion on risk in projects due to poor planning and change management processes.

He uses a collection of project elements from various projects his clients have conducted. He uses this data, Project Experience Risk Information Library (PERIL) database, to quantify and rank classes of risk. In the early part of his book he uses this significantly and the Appendix lists approximately 120 of the element's descriptions.

The book is structured to follow the PMBOK stages of a project — initiation, planning, controlling, executing and closure. Each chapter discusses a set of concepts and concludes with a bulleted "Key Ideas" section and an anecdote from the two attempts to construct the Panama Canal.

Reception

Further reading

  • Lam, J., Enterprise Risk Management: From Incentives to Controls (2003). Wiley; 1 edition, ISBN 0-471-43000-5
  • Peter Simon and David Hillson, Practical Risk Management: The ATOM Methodology (2012). Management Concepts. Vienna, VA, ISBN 978-1567263664
  • Lev Virine and Michael Trumper, Project Decisions: The Art and Science (2007). Management Concepts. Vienna, VA, ISBN 978-1-56726-217-9
  • Lev Virine and Michael Trumper, ProjectThink: Why Good Managers Make Poor Project Choices (2013). Gower Pub Co, ISBN 978-1409454984
  • Wideman, R.M. Project and Program Risk Management (1992). Newtown Square, PA: Project Management Institute. ISBN 978-1-880410-06-6

References