Table of Contents

Preface.

About the Author.

1 The Big Picture.

2 Practical Limitations of Risk Management.

3 Organizing to Deal with Risk.

4 Identifying Risk.

5 Assessing Impacts of Risk Events—Qualitative Impact Analysis.

6 Assessing Impacts of Risk Events—Quantitative Analysis.

7 Assessing the Impacts of Risk Events: The Role of Probability and Statistics.

8 Planning to Handle Risk.

9 Monitoring and Controlling Risk.

10 Business Risk.

11 Operational Risks.

12 Project Risk.

13 Conclusions.

References.

Index.

About the Author

J. Davidson Frame is Dean of Academic Affairs at the University of Management and Technology (UMT) in Arlington, Virginia. Prior to joining UMT, he established the project management program at George Washington University. He also served as director of the Project Management Certification Program at the Project Management Institute (PMI) and has served on PMI’s board of directors. Frame has authored more than forty articles and seven books, including The New Project Management (2nd edition), Managing Projects in Organizations (3rd edition), and Project Management Competence, all from Jossey-Bass.