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PMP Training Notes 5
PMP
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Business
Professional
01/16/2011

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Term
6 Project Risk Management Processes
Definition

Plan Risk Mangement

Identify Risks

Perform Qualitative Analysis

Perform Quantitative Analysis

Plan Risk Responses

Monitor and control Risks

Term
Types of Innovations
Definition

Technical

Regulatory

Marketing

Term
Risks in a project
Definition

Budget and schedule

Scope nd project requirements

Technical and hardware

Project management processes

Personnel

Political and legal

Contracts

Business, environmental, and management

Term
Negative risks
Definition

Risks of the unknown

Schedule and supply problems

Environmental risk

Political risk

Term
Risk Management Roles
Definition

Reducing uncertainty

Determining appropriate responses

Term
Risk can impact
Definition

Cost

Schedule

Quality

Scope

Term
Plan Risk Management process - Inputs
Definition

Project scope statement

Cost management plan

Schedule management plan

communications management plan

Enerprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets

Term
Risk Tolerance
Definition

Balance between risk and benefits

the amount of risk stakeholders are willing to endure

Term
Organizational process assets for risk management
Definition

Risk categories

Risk statement formats

Roles and responsibilities

Authority levels for decision making

Lessons learned

Stakeholder registers

Term
Plan Risk management process - Tools & Technique
Definition
Planning meetings and analysis
Term
Seven agenda items for risk management planning
Definition

Methodology

Roles and responsibilities

Budgeting

Timing

Reporting formats

Tracking

Risk Categories

 

Term
Methods for identifying risks
Definition

Brainstorming sessions

interviewing subject matter experts

assumptions analysis

process flow diagrams

cause and effect diagrams

Term
Methods for analyzing risks
Definition

Probability and impact assessments

probability and impact matrix

probability distributions

simulations

Term
Strategies for responding to risks
Definition

avoiding and transferring risks

mitigation and accepting risks

Term
Methods for monitoring and controlling risks
Definition
status meetings to assess project performance and reassess risks
Term
Plan Risk Management Plan process - Outputs
Definition
Risk Management Plan
Term
Cardinal Scal
Definition
0.0 to 1.0
Term
Ordinal scale
Definition
Low Medium High
Term
Perform Qualitative Risk Analysis - Inputs
Definition

Risk Register

Risk Management plan

Project scope statement

Organizational process assets

Term
Qualitative risk analysis - Risk management plan
Definition

Risk management roles and responsibilities

Risk analysis budget and schedule

Risk categories

Definitions of probability and impact

Revised stakeholders' risk tolerances

Term
Perform Qualitative Risk analysis - Organizational process analysis
Definition

Historical Information

Studied of similar projects

Risk databases

Term
Perform Qualitative Risk analysis - Tools & Techniques
Definition

Risk probability and impact assessment

Proability and impact matrix

Risk data quality assessment

Risk categorization

Risk urgency assessment

Expert Judgment

Term
Perform Qualitative Risk analysis - Outputs
Definition
Risk register updates
Term
Perform Quantitative Risk analysis - Inputs
Definition

Risk register

Risk management plan

Cost management plan

Schedule management plan

Organizational process assets

Term
Perform Quantitative Risk analysis process - Tools & Techniques
Definition

Data gathering and representation techniques

  • Interviewing experts and relevant stakeholders
  • three-point estimate (rationale & assumptions)

Quantitative risk analysis and modeling techniques

Expert Judgment

Term
Three-point estimate
Definition

The nature of objectives and risks

How you plan to represent and analyze data

Term
Two types of distributions
Definition

Discrete (bar chart)

Continuous (Curve chart)

Term
5 types of continuous distributions
Definition

Normal

Uniform

Beta

Triangular

Lognormal

Term
Project risk analysis can take one of two forms
Definition

Event-oriented

Project-oriented

Term
Quantitative risk analysis techniques
Definition

Sensitivity analysis

EMV analysis

Term
EMV - Expected monetary value of a risk
Definition
Impact * probability
Term
Decision tree analysis
Definition

Determine EMV for the first path

Determin the EMV for the second path

compare the total EMVs

Term
Two types of models
Definition

Iterative

Non-iterative

Term
Iterative modeling
Definition
Monte Carlo simulation
Term
Perform Quantitative Risk analysis process  - outputs
Definition
Risk register updates
Term
Specific outputs of quantitative risk analsysis that are added to the risk register
Definition

Probabilistic analysis of the project

Probability of achieving objectives

Prioritized list of risks

Trends in analysis results

Term
Risk Responce planning process - Inputs
Definition

Risk register

Risk management plan

Term
Risk Responce planning process - Tools & Techniques
Definition

Strategies for negative risks or threats

Strategies for positive risks or threats

Contingent response strategies

Expert judgment

Term
Strategies for negative risk
Definition

Avoid

Transfer

Mitigate

Accept

Term
Tools for transferring risk
Definition

Insurance

Contracts

Performance bonds

Guarantees

Warranties

Term
Mitigate
Definition

Reduce the probability the risk will occur

  • Adopting less complex processes
  • Conducting more tests
  • Choosing more stable suppliers
  • Building redundancy into a system
Term
Active or passive acceptance
Definition
  • Small, unavoidable, unknown risks
  • Can't be transferred, shared, or mitigated

Hope for the best

Respond appropriately

Term
Strategies for positive risks
Definition

Exploit

Share

Enhance

Accept

Term
Risk Responce planning process - Outputs
Definition

Risk register updates

Risk-related contract decisions

Projet management plan updates

Project document updates

Term
Monitor and control risks - 4 main reasons
Definition

Track risks and evaluate responses

Identify and plan for new risks

Monitor residual risks

Activate contingency plans

Term
Monitor & control risk process - Inputs
Definition

Risk register

Project management plan

Work performance information

Performance reports

Term
Risk register identifies
Definition

Priority

Causes

Warning signs

Risk owners

Term
Risk register components inform how to handle risks
Definition

Risk responses and actions

Triggers

Residual and secondary risks

contingency reserves

Impact thresholds

Term
Risk management plan
Definition

Risk tolerances of stakeholders

Methodology used to manage risk

Risk monitoring and control responsibilities

Term
Work performance information
Definition

Deliverable status

Schedule process

Costs incurred

Term
Monitor & control risk process - Tools & Techniques
Definition

Risk reassessment

Reserve analysis

Technical performance measurement

Status meetings

risk audits

Variance and trend analysis

Term
Monitor & control risk process - Outputs
Definition

Risk register updates

Organizational process assets updates

Change requests

Project management plan updates

Project document updates

Term
Risk register updates trigger
Definition

Outcomes of reassessments and audits

Outcomes of responses

Term
Monitor & control risk process - Organizational process assets
Definition

Risk planning documents

Finalized risk management documents

Lessons learned

Term
Risk planning documents
Definition
  • risk management plan
  • probability and impact matrix
  • risk breakdown structure
  • risk register
Term
Finalized risk management documents
Definition

finalized risk management plan

checklists

risk breakdown structure

risk register

Term
Lessons learned
Definition

risk audit results

changes to assumptions

identified risks and their priorities

Term
Which sections of the project management plan may be updated after the Plan risk responses process
Definition

All of them

(Quality managment plan, Schedule management and schedule baseline, Cost management plan and cost performance baseline, procurement management plan, human resource management plan, work breakdown structure)

 

Term
Sources of risk include
Definition

the budget

the schedule

the project scop or requirements

project management processes

personnel issues

equipment and facilities

Term
Many different forms of risks
Definition

Political

Business

Legal

Environmental

Management

Term
Identify Risks process - Inputs
Definition

Risk management plan

Activity cost estimates

Activity duration estimates

Scope baseline

Stakeholder register

Cost management plan

Project documents

Enterprise environmental factors

Organizational process assets

Term
Identify Risks process - Tools & Techniques
Definition

Documentation reviews

Information gathering techniques

checklist analysis

Assumptions analysis

Diagramming techniques

SWOT analysis

Expert judgment

Term
Identify Risks process - Outputs
Definition
Risk register
Term
Identify risks - input groups
Definition

Documents that assist in identifying risk

Activity cost and duration estimates

Baselines and management pland

Other sources of information

Documents for ongoing risk identification

Term
Risk management plan includes
Definition

Roles and responsibilities

Budget and schedule provisions

Categories of risk

Term
Categories of risk
Definition

external

financial

operational

reputational

Term
Enterprise environmental factors
Definition

Risk studies or academic papers

Industrial benchmarking

risk attitudes

Term
Organizational process assets
Definition
Historical project data and lessons learned
Term
Documentation review
Definition

Identify contradictions and gaps

Check the quality of management plans

Investigate constraints and assumptions

Term
Documentation Review Inputs - Risk management plan
Definition
  • roles and responsibilities
  • provision for risk management activities in the budget and schedule
  • categories of risk (risk breakdown structure)
  • Term
    Documentation Review Inputs - stakeholder register
    Definition
    provides a list of people that can be used in soliciting inputs for identifying risks
    Term
    Documentation Review Inputs - Estimates
    Definition
  • activity cost estimates
  • activity duration estimates
  • Term
    Documentation Review Inputs - Baselines and management plans
    Definition
  • scope baseline - project assumptions, work breakdown structure
  • cost management plan
  • schedule management plan
  • quality management plan
  • Term
    Documentation Review Inputs - Other sources of information
    Definition
  • enterprise environmental factors – external to the project environment – such as academic studies, benchmarking, industry studies, and risk attitudes
  • organizational process assets, such as project files, risk statement templates, and lessons learned
  • Term
    Documentation Review Inputs - Project documents for ongoing risk identification
    Definition
  • work performance reports
  • earned value reports
  • updated baselines
  • Term
    Types of people to include in risk managment information gathering sessions
    Definition

    Project team members

    Risk management team

    Customers

    Subject matter experts

    project managers

    Stakeholders

    Risk managment experts

    Term
    Risk identification techniques
    Definition

    Brainstorming

    Interviewing

    Delphi technique

    Term
    Brainstorming rules
    Definition

    Identify your objective or problem

    Record the ideas generated

    Prevent criticism of anyone else's ideas

    Build on one another's ideas

    Term
    Classification of risks
    Definition

    Risk source

    Area of the project affected

    Project phase

    Term
    Which types of plans and estimates are useful for inputs for identifying risks?
    Definition

    Activity cost and duration estimates

    Cost, schedule, and quality management plans

    The Work breakdown structure

    Assumptions and constraints outlined in the project scope statement

    Term
    SWOT
    Definition
    Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
    Term
    Strengths
    Definition
     List the advantages you, your team, and your organization have that will help you reach project objectives. Include activities you do well, special skills you may have, or resources that can boost productivity or quality.
    Term
    Weaknesses
    Definition
    List anything internal to your organization or team that could prevent you from meeting objectives, such as resources or skills you lack. These are factors that can be improved on.
    Term
    Opportunities
    Definition
     List anything external to your organization that could lead to a positive outcome in meeting objectives. Opportunities can arise, for example, from particular events, new technology, changes in societal attitudes, or policy changes.
    Term
    Threats
    Definition
    List anything external to your organization that could disrupt, damage, or hinder project objectives. Look for obstacles such as supplier failure, environmental factors, competition, changes in market demands, or late deliveries.
    Term
    USED strategy
    Definition

    How can we Use each strength?

    How can we Stop each weakness?

    How can we Exploit each opportunity?

    How can we Defend against each threat?

    Term
    Assumptions analysis involves
    Definition

    Examining the validity of assumptions

    Assessing the impact of false assumptions

    Term
    Assumptions analysis questions
    Definition

    Is the assumption valid?

    What impact could the assumption have if it proves false?

    Term
    Criteria to check the validity of assumptions
    Definition

    Inaccuracy

    Inconsistency

    Incompleteness

    Term
    Negative impacts for false assumptions
    Definition

    Budget overruns

    Unanticipated schedule delays

    Lack of resources

    Lack of supplies

    Term
    Checklists analysis
    Definition
    the technique of creating a list of project risks and assessing whether the risks apply to the current project
    Term
    Root cause analysis
    Definition

    First understand the cause...

    ...then solve the problem

    Term
    Diagramming techniques that assist in a root cause analysis
    Definition

    Cause-and-effect diagrams

    Flowcharts

    Influence diagrams

    Term
    Cause and effect diagrams
    Definition
    Ishikawa or fish bone diagrams
    Term
    4 steps to identify causes of risks
    Definition

    Record the risk

    Identify major contributing factors

    List cuases

    Analyze the diagram

    Term
    Cause and effect diagram rules
    Definition

    Must contain the main categories of causes

    Main categories branch off the spine

    Causes and sub-causes related to main category and risk

    Term
    Plan procurements process - Outputs
    Definition

    Procurement management plan

    Procurement statement of work (SOW)

    Make-or-buy decisions

    Change requests

    Procurement documents

    Source selection criteria

    Term
    Procurement management plan includes the following categories
    Definition

    Procurement documents

    Seller selection policies and criteria

    Supplier management methods

    Risk management and mitigation methods

    Assumptions and constraints

    Term
    Procurement Management Plan Template - Procurement documents
    Definition
    In this section, you describe the kinds of contracts to be used, and the form and structure of the procurement contract statements of work. You also identify any standardized procurement documents or templates, if necessary.
    Term
    Procurement Management Plan Template  - Seller selection
    Definition
    Here you state whether independent estimates, such as quotations, bids, or tenders, will be used and if they are needed as evaluation criteria. You identify any prequalified or preferred sellers, if available. You also define the procurement metrics to be used to manage contracts and evaluate sellers.
    Term
    Procurement Management Plan Template  - Supplier management
    Definition
    In a section on supplier management, you describe how you'll handle multiple suppliers. You establish the type of direction to be provided to the sellers on developing and maintaining a work breakdown structure (WBS).
    Term
    Procurement Management Plan Template - Risk management
    Definition
    Under risk management, you clarify known risk issues and identify requirements for measures – such as performance bonds or insurance contracts – that will mitigate specific risks.
    Term
    Procurement Management Plan Template  - Assumptions and constraints
    Definition
    Here you describe any constraints and assumptions – limiting factors or unproven beliefs – that could affect planned procurements.
    Term
    Procurement Management Plan Template  - Responsibilities
    Definition
    In a section on responsibilities, you describe the actions the project management team is authorized to take. For instance, if the performing organization has an existing department that handles procurements, contracting, or purchasing, the project management team might not be responsible for procurements.
    Term
    Procurement Management Plan Template  - Project integration
    Definition
    Under project integration, you plan how to coordinate procurements with other project areas such as scheduling and performance reporting. You plan how to coordinate purchasing lead times with the project schedule development. You plan how to manage make-or-buy decisions and how to link them to the Estimate Activity Resource and Develop Schedule processes. You set the scheduled dates in each contract for the contract deliverables. You also plan how to coordinate the schedule development and schedule control processes.
    Term
    What info would u expect to find in a procurement SOW
    Definition

    The performance data related to the required service.

    A description of the supply details, including the location and timing of supply, and the type of contract to be used.

    A clear description of the service that is required.

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