• The context for risk management
   - What are your strengths and challenges in dealing with risks currently?
   - What are the most common risks you face at work?
• Identifying Risks
   - Looking at history, experience, team memory
   - Surveying common risks
   - Maximizing brainstorming risks
• Analyzing and Assessing risks
   - Simple tools for risk analysis
   - Gathering data for more precise risk analysis
   - Avoiding common problems with risk analysis
• Deciding where to put your risk management resources
   - Tools for decision making
   - Matching tools to risk level
• Developing risk plans
   - Planning to avoid risks
   - Planning to mitigate risks
   - Planning for early warning signs of risk
   - Integrating risk management goals, objectives, strategies, and tactics into project plans
• Monitoring and Controlling risks
   - Developing metrics, and schedules to monitor risk
   - Controlling risks where possible
   - Establishing risk management techniques
• Expecting the Unexpected
   - Developing generic response plans
   - Training everyone on response plans
• Continually improving risk management
   - Analyzing lessons learned from every risk that occurs
   - Integrating results and lessons learned into existing and future risk management, mitigation, and response planning

• Project Managers
• Aspiring Project Managers
• Managers
• Team Leaders
• Team Members

Being prepared to deal with unexpected risks allows you to respond not react. Risk is part of life whether you are developing a new product or service. Project Managers may be faced with changes in official regulations, environmental disasters, or more common challenges. Project Managers cannot afford to fail to analyze and plan to mitigate risks systematically. Even more problematic is dealing with unexpected risks.