Risk: The beast to tame

- Project risk is a beast you must tame. Untreated risk has killed way too many projects. While project management is overhead, the reason organizations tolerate that overhead is because projects bring risks. If there wasn't risks, we wouldn't need project management. Hi, I'm Bob McGannon and this is project management foundations risk. One of the 10 knowledge areas in the project management body of knowledge.

In my 30 years of delivering projects on three continents, I've learned that successfully dealing with risks is the difference between succeeding and failing as a project manager. In this course, I'll provide approaches to help ensure you understand risks and I'll help you be prepared for risks to occur and to deal with them swiftly and effectively. Identifying risks. Anticipating risk impacts. Having response plans in place. And ensuring your project management plans are aligned to handle risks are critical.

So, let's get started and slay the beast that is risk on your project.