Session 5 Flashcards
Risks
•risk can be positive (opportunities) or negative (threats)
Example of project risks
• working with new vendors and building processes
• supply chain issues for correct bricks
• building cod compliance
• key stakeholder conflict
Business Risks Predictive
• represents an opportunity for gain or loss
Project Risks Management Predictive
• systematically maximizes the probability of positive events and minimizes the probability and consequences of negative events
Risks- Adaptive & Hybrid
• as a project uncertainty increases, the risk of rework increases; adaptive life cycles use smaller increments of work to enable feedback and progressive elaboration of scope
How do you Create Risk Strategy
• first understand risk parameters for the organization and the project
Managment Guidelines
• use qualitative (high, medium, low, etc) or quantitative (numerical) rating• set a maximum risk exposure level that can be managed without escalation
Inherent Risk
• teams place risks in a risk register, use information radiators to ensure visibility and a backlog refinement process that includes constant risk assessment
Risk Identification Techniques
Data Gathering and Analysis
• risk breakdown structure RBS
• brainstorming
• nominal group technique
• SWOT analysis
• affinity diagram
• assumption analysis
• document review
• Delphi technique
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Risk Breakdown Structure Categories
• technical
• management
• commercial
• external
How would you assess risks?
• qualitative assessment (language)
THEN
• quantitative assessment (numbers)
Probability and Impact Matrix
• use numeric values and or colors
• if using numbers, multiply them to give a probability impact score— Tia makes evaluating relative priority easier
Quantitative Risk Analysis Methods
Predictive
• simulations
~ use computer models to determine risk factors
• sensitivity analysis
~ determines the greatest risk
• decision tree analysis
~ branches represent decisions or events, each with associated costs and risk
• influence diagrams
~ shows elements of uncertainty caused by risks using ranges or probability distributions
• expected monetary value EMV
~ select the optimal one
Predictive Risk Response-Good Practice
Should be the following:
• appropriate for the significance of the risk
• cost effective
• realistic within the project context
• agreed to by relevant stakeholders
• owned by a responsible person
Predictive Plan Risk Response
Guidelines and Terminology
• a trigger condition signals of a risk can develop
• team implements a risk response
• a secondary risk can arise as a direct result of the risk response implementation
• residual risk can remain after risk responses have been implemented
• have a contingency(fallback) plan ready in case the primary risk response fails
• the contingency reserves (or allowance) is the budget within the costs baseline that is allocated for identify wrist in their response st strategies
Risk Response Strategies Predictive
• prepare strategies for threats (negative) as well as opportunities (positive) and for individual project risk, and overall project risk
Risk Response Threats
• escalate
• avoid
• transfer
• mitigate
• accept
Risk Response Opportunity
• escalate
• exploit
• share
• enhance
• accept
Quality
• the degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfill requirements include:
~ stakeholder expectations in user satisfaction
~ compliance with standards and regulations
~ continuous improvement
Cost of Quality CoQ
• money spent during project to avoid failure
Prevention costs (build a quality product)
• training
• document processes
• equipment
• time to work “right”— resources, infrastructure expenses
Appraisal (quality assessment)
• testing
• inspections
Internal Failure Costs
• rework
• scrap
External Failure Cost
• liabilities
• warranty work
• lost business
Predictive QM Plan
• activities and resources that achieve the quality objectives
• formal or informal, detailed or broadly framed
• reviewed throughout the project
• benefits:
~ sharper focus on the project value proposition
~ cost reductions
~ mitigated schedule overruns from rework
Compliance Requirements
Internal & External
• appropriate government regulations
• organizational policies
• product and project quality requirements
• project risk
Compliance Requirements Actions
Internal & External
• classify compliance categories
• determine potential threats to compliance
• analyze the consequences of noncompliance
• determine necessary approach and action to address compliance needs
Metrics
• measure desired quality attributes for your product or project through testing, use of tools, processes
Related to Continuous Improvements
• Six Sigma Aka Lean Six Sigma
~ focus on removing waste
• Kaizen ~ change for better/improve
• PDCA
~ plan, do, check, act
• Agile methods
~ scrum, kanban, crystal methods
DMAIC
•define
• measure
• analyze
• improve
• control
Integrated view of plans can:
• identify incorrect gap or discrepancies
• align efforts and highlight how they depend on each other so your team works better
• help assesses and coordinate the project during its lifecycle
Predictive Integrate Plans
• at the end of the planning stage combine all planning results from knowledge areas
Hybrid Integrate Plans
• reframe the approach to plan integration and figure out a way forward to work with various planning elements —adapt it while working
Adaptive Integrate Plans
• adaptive processes, and agile ceremonies provide a structure to continuously integrate plans, or aspects of a project
Change Management Plan
• use to set a process and assigned roles to change
Plan for Complexity and Change
• organizations system
•’human behavior
• uncertainty or ambiguity
Systems- based
•decoupling
~ disconnect parts of the system to simplify it and reduce the number of connected variables
• simulation
~ use similar, unrelated scenarios to try to understand the complexity
Reframe the Problem
•diversity
~ view the system from different perspectives
• balance
~ reconsider the type of data used
Process-Based
• iterate
~ plan iteratively or incrementally; add features one at a time
• engage
~ really engage with stakeholders
• fail safe
~ plan for failure
What Interpersonal Power Skills does project professionals use
•collaborative leadership
• communication
• innovative mindset
Guidelines for Developing Inclusive Leadership Competencies
• tailor your leadership approach and style
• lead with empathy
• understand that motivations and working styles vary
• maintain transparency and openness to build trust
• ensure external resources are included
Leadership Skills and Competencies
• communication
• conflict management
• critical thinking
• culture awareness
• decision making
• emotional intelligence technique (EQ or EI)
• ethical approach (PMI code of Ethics and professional conduct)
• expert judgment
• facilitation
• meeting management
• negotiation
• networking
• team building
Interpersonal & Team Skills
• active listening
• communications styles assessment
• emotional intelligence
• influencing
• motivation
• nominal group technique
• political awareness
• transparency
Leadership Style-Direct
Characteristics
• hierarchical, with project manager, making all decisions