Risk Happens! is filled with techniques, tips and tools.
This page gives you access to downloadable versions. It also contains links to articles about risk and risk management on my main blog: Shift Happens! – which covers the topics of change, projects and risk.
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Risk Management Templates
Risk Potential Review
Based on Table 4.2, this template offers a quick and effective assessment of the overall risk level of your project.
Risk Happens! Risk Register Template
This template collates all of the risk register elements illustrated in Tables 4.7, 5.17, 6.7, and 7.1. The columns of this risk register are fully described in the book. (Excel format)
Risk Management Plan
Over-arching plan for risk management across your project
Risk Response Plan
For detailed response to an individual risk
Templates for related project controls
- Change Control: Change Request form, and Change Log (Excel format)
- Quality Processes: Pro-forma Quality Plan
- Resource Management: RACI Chart
There are a whole load of extra downloadable project management resources on my Brilliant Project Leader site, including:
Risk and Risk Management articles
Click on these links for selected articles on the Shift Happens! blog.
- Risk Appetite
- Identifying Risk
- Analysing Risk
- Estimation Bias
- Neuroscience of Risk
- Risk Management (general)
Group Think and Risky Shift extract, at A Girl’s Guide to Project Management.
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Elizabeth Harrin (of “a Girl’s Guide to Project Management”) talks about using
Cost Breakdown Structures to create budget contingency, in a
video and transcript on her Gantthead blog, “The Money Files“.
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