Project Management and Change Articles

A Risk Response Is Not Real Until Someone Implements It

Most risk registers contain at least one response that has never actually happened. Here is how to tell the difference between an agreed response and an implemented one, and what has to change before a response counts.

Identifying Risks: Why a Bigger List Is Not Always a Better List

A risk workshop can produce sixty entries and still miss the two things that actually delay delivery. What effective identification requires, and how to tell a working risk entry from filler.

Risk Owners vs Action Owners

A risk register full of names is not the same as a register with owners. Here is the difference between the person accountable for the risk and the person accountable for the response, and why completed actions do not close an exposure.

Expected Monetary Value Explained

Expected monetary value turns a probability and a cost into one comparable number. It is genuinely useful for choosing between risk responses and sizing contingency, and misleading the moment anyone reads it as a forecast.

Qualitative vs Quantitative Risk Analysis

Quantitative analysis is not the grown-up version of qualitative analysis. The two answer different questions, and recognising which one a project actually needs saves effort, money and credibility.

Risk Appetite, Tolerance and Threshold: Stop Mixing Them Up

Appetite, tolerance and threshold are three different things, and the difference decides whether anyone on the project knows when to act. Here is how to tell them apart, and how to write a threshold that does something.

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