How to manage project opportunity and risk : why uncertainty management can be a much better approach than risk management /

Chapman, Chris B.

How to manage project opportunity and risk : why uncertainty management can be a much better approach than risk management / Chris Chapman & Stephen Ward. - 3rd edition - Chichester, West Sussex ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, c2011. - xxvi, 492 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Contents;

PART I: Setting the scene
1. Uncertainty in and around projects
2. Uncertainty, risk and opportunity
3. Key motives for uncertainty management
4. An overview of generic process frameworks

PART II: The generic process in one key lifecycle stage
5. Define the project
6. Focus the process
7. Identify all the relevant sources of uncertainty, response options and conditions
8. Structure all uncertainty
9. Clarify ownership
10. Quantify some uncertainty
11. Evaluate all the relevant implications

PART III: The generic process in all lifecycle stages
12. Fully integrating the strategy shaping stages
13. Fully integrating the strategy implementation stages

PART IV: Key corporate implications
14. Developing PUMP capability as a project
15. Contracts and governance as frameworks for enlightened relationship management
16. A corporate capability perspective



References : p. 463-472 . _ Glossary : p. 473-478 . _ Index : p. 479-492

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