How to Reduce Risk in Project Schedules and Portfolios

摘要

Even the best-planned projects go wrong: every project manager knows that. Unexpectedly, from left field, comes a curveball -leaving plans, budgets and timescales in tatters. But it doesn't have to be that way. 'Unexpected' isn't the same as 'unimaginable,' or 'inconceivable.' For all too often, the things that go wrong in projects have indeed been foreseen as at least possibilities: in many projects, adverse factors such as bad weather, supplier unreliability and technical delays are ever-present dangers.