Project Risk Management: A Practical Implementation Approach

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Project “Best Practices” and Postmortems

This chapter takes all the information previously covered in this book and integrates it into a holistic look at project and portfolio risk management. From a big-picture standpoint, as a project manager, the “right” project management tools and techniques will go a long way toward ensuring that one's project successfully meets its objectives. Figure 15.1 is provided to help explain the concepts. The “right” tools and techniques are the “best practices.” The specific tools and techniques are essentially determined from the information that defines the project, that is, the project profile (refer to Appendix C at the end of the book for an example set of the various elements of a project ...