Monthly Risk Doctor Columns
David Hillson writes a monthly Risk Doctor Column for Project Manager Today Magazine presenting insights, tips and guidance for those interested in applying risk management effectively to their projects. You can read or download these columns from this page.
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| Column title | Date/page | File size | Summary | Click |
| "Proving the value of managing risk" |
April 2008 page 22 |
98 KB | How can we demonstrate that our efforts to deal with uncertainty are working? |
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| "Maturity - good or bad?" |
March 2008 page 14 |
193 KB | Everyone assumes maturity is "A Good Thing", but perhaps not. Maybe we should be like Brigitte Bardot or Madonna? |
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| "Assume nothing, challenge everything!" |
February 2008 page 35 |
110 KB | Using Assumptions & Constraints Analysis to identify risks. |
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| "Risky Resolutions" |
January 2008 page 12 |
118 KB | Four New Year’s resolutions to improve your management of risk. |
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| "Unknown-Unknowns and Risk" |
December 2007 page 22 |
137 KB | From that infamous Rumsfeld quote to practical guidelines – how to deal with what you don’t know. |
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"To quant or not to quant" |
November 2007 page 30 |
114 KB | Explores the problems, prerequisites and benefits of using quantitative risk analysis. | |
| "The three tenses of risk identification" |
October 2007 page 18 |
133 KB | Exploring three types of risk identification techniques: reviewing the past, assessing the present, and predicting the future. | |
| "Exploring patterns of risk exposure" |
September 2007 pages 28-30 |
201 KB | Using hierarchical frameworks to understand risk (including the new Risk Impact Breakdown Structure, RiBS). |
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| "Risk management: The longer view forward" | August 2007 page 44 |
113 KB | Surveying the risk management futurescape: three possible futures. | |
| "Risk management: The long view back" | July 2007 page 14 |
102 KB | Tracing the history of risk management through the ages. | |
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| "The benefits of managing risk" | June 2007 page 15 |
89 KB | This second part of a risk management cost-benefit analysis outlines the multiple benefits available. (Part 1 in May 2007) | |
| "The cost of managing risk" | May 2007 page 30 |
108 KB | The first part of a cost-benefit analysis to calculate ROI for risk management. (Part 2 in June 2007) | |
| "Get the frogs off the log" | April 2007 | 130 KB | How to ensure that risk responses are implemented. | |
| "Yes but will it work?" | March 2007 pages 14-15 |
148 KB | Seven tests for effective risk responses. |
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| "Silver linings in every cloud" | February 2007 pages 27-28 |
134 KB | How to find opportunities and avoid scope creep. | |
| "When is a risk not a risk?" | January 2007 pages 15-16 |
306 KB | The need to be clear about what risk management is supposed to be managing. | |
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