Would I like to speak about project risk management?
That’s the question I was asked after giving a talk last year to the Bristol branch of the British Computer Society (BCS) last year.
“You bet I would!” I said.
Several months later I got a call from Donald Southey from the BCS project management special interest group (SIG) inviting me to speak at the BCS Spring School in March 2007.
I’m so looking forward to giving this talk, especially as previous audiences have really liked it. It’s called “Four Simple Steps to Perfect Project Risk Management” and my goal is to get project managers to wake up to the dangers they face by not actively managing risks that threaten their project. With a bit of luck I’ll be able to persuade at least one person in the audience to take on board some of the lessons that I’ve learned. That way they won’t have to make the same mistakes that I have.
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And a very good talk it was too.
Bryan is a very good presenter: entertaining, structured, fun and he imparts information in a memorable and easily understood way. I was impressed - and that’s before I even get onto the content. I expect Bryan could do an hour on ‘how to make toast’ and keep his audience engrossed.
He is clearly a very experienced PM; his examples were all backed up accounts from his personal experience.
He gave us a tools and techniques for managing project risk wrapped up into an integrated approach that could be made to work with (despite?) an established (and typically unsatisfactory) corporate risk management environment.
It is an approach that would be of immense benefit to a junior or inexperienced project manager that has been presented with a ‘challenged’ project.
For more experienced PMs, there is plenty of food for thought and I shall cheerfully, gratefully and shamelessly be adding his techniques to my ‘bag of tools’.
Thanks, Bryan!
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