Risky Business: Why DoD Needs a New Risk Management Paradigm.

摘要

Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000.2--'Operation of the Defense Acquisition System'--the DoD's 'Bible' for Program Management (PM), uses the word 'risk' 67 times within its 80 pages but only has a minimal passing reference to 'Risk Management' in the section related to service contracting, defining it as 'An assessment of current and potential technical, cost, schedule, and performance risks and the plan for mitigating or retiring those risks.' The Project Management Institute (PMI) Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (also known as the PMBOK) includes a much longer chapter on Risk Management (RM). Given that risk is a significant concern in DoD program/project management, why is the process of managing risk given such short shrift in the DoDI 5000.2, particularly in comparison to the commercially focused PMBOK. Is the commercial PM community more concerned with RM than is the DoD community.