Index
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AC (actual cost)
acceptance
of major risks
of minor risks
and probability of occurrence
acceptance management
activity on arrow method
activity on node method
actual cost (AC)
actual probability
actuarial science
actuaries
American Management Association
answers to exercises
arrow diagramming
assumptions
authority
average
avoidance of risk
Backward pass
baseline
Bernstein, Peter, on risk management
Berra, Yogi, on prediction
black swan events
Bohr, Niels, on prediction
Book of Common Prayer, xviii
A Book on Games of Chance (Girolamo Cardano)
Booz Allen Hamilton
bottom line
brainstorming
business risk
Capping risks
Cardano, Girolamo
career risks
categories of risk
cause-and-effect diagrams
Central limit Theorem (ClT)
central tendency, measures of
change management
change management systems
checklists, for risk identification
classical risk analysis
closeout, project
closing a risk
CLT (Central Limit Theorem)
confidence levels
contingency
contingency allowance
contingency reserve
contingent responses
control, project, see also risk monitoring and control
convergence risk
corrective actions
cost analysis
cost-benefit analysis
cost estimating
costs
actual
deterministic
of failure
probabilistic
project
risk mitigation
critical path
Critical Path Method (CPM)
customer risks
Decision nodes
decision tree analysis
decision trees
dependency relationships
description of risk
deterministic costs
diagramming techniques
Dictionary.com, definition of risk from
disposition of risk
distribution(s)
normal
other than normal
triangular
downside risks
Drucker, Peter, on eliminating risks
DuPont Corporation
Early warning indicators
earned value (EV)
Earned Value Project Management (EV, EVM)
EMV (Expected Monetary Value)
enhancing opportunities
EV (earned value)
EV (Earned Value Project Management)
EVM (Earned Value Method)
EVM (Earned Value Project Management)
excluding risks
Expected Monetary Value (EMV)
expert judgment
exploiting opportunities
Failure, cost of
filtering
final risk price
financial analysis
financial crisis (late-2000s)
fishbone diagram, see also cause-and-effect diagrams
float
forward pass
free float
Fry, Art
Gambling
Gantt charts
Hewlett-Packard
Homer
Impact of risks
assessing
combining probability and
measuring
in qualitative risk analysis
in risk register
information, levels of
infrastructure, see risk management infrastructure
initiation, project
insurable risk
insurance
as model for risk cost analysis
treaty
insurance risk
and black swan events
and final risk price
with high variation
with low variation
and reinsurance
and residual risks
risk premiums in
and secondary risks
Ishikawa, kaoru
Ishikawa diagram, see also cause-and-effect diagrams
Joint probability
Juvenal
Known risks
Law of Large Numbers (LLN)
lessons learned
levels of information
Liber de Ludo Aleae (Girolamo Cardano)
LLN (Law of Large Numbers)
long-term risks
Mean
measures of central tendency
median
Merriam-Webster dictionary, definition of risk in
meteor strikes
mitigation of risk
mode
monitoring, project, see also risk monitoring and control
Monte Carlo simulations
multi-stage risk response
NASA Near-Earth Object Program Office
nature of risk
negative brainstorming
network diagram
network diagramming
and critical path analysis
preferred techniques for
resources for
normal distributions
Odds
Odyssey (Homer)
opportunities management
opportunity
organizational risks
ownership of risk
Path duration risk
PDM (precedence diagramming method)
performance index ratios, EVM
personal risks
PERT, see Program Evaluation and Review Technique
physical hazards
planned value (PV)
PMBOK Guide
PMI (Project Management Institute)
PMP certification
Polaris evaluation and review Technique
Post-It® notes
post-test
precedence diagramming method (PDM)
pre-test
primary risks
Princeton WordNet
probabilistic costs
probability
actual
assessing
basic rules of
combining impact and
definition of
distribution of
expressing
mathematical descriptions of
measuring
in qualitative risk analysis
in risk register
science of
theoretical
Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
project
project charters, identifying risks from
project cost
project documentation, identifying risks from
project management
project management information
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
project monitoring and control
project risk and cost analysis
cost analysis and risk management planning in
post-test for
pre-test for
risk and risk management concepts in
see also specific topics
project risk environment, managing
project risk management
project risk rankings
project risks
pure risk
PV (planned value)
Qualitative risk analysis
choices in
impact of risks in
purpose of
risk triage process in
updating risk register in
qualitative risk analysis tool(s)
for assessing probability and impact
for combining probability and impact
for developing project risk rankings
risk information sheet as
for risk register update
quantitative cost analysis, statistical foundations of, see statistics
quantitative cost analysis tool(s)
cost-benefit analysis as
and cost estimating under uncertainty
decision tree analysis as
Expected Monetary Value as
sensitivity analysis as
quantitative risk analysis, see also statistics
quantitative risk analysis tools
quantitative schedule analysis tool(s)
critical path analysis as
Gantt charts as
Monte Carlo simulation as
network diagramming as
Program Evaluation and Review Technique as
schedule risk analysis as
sensitivity analysis as
three-point estimating techniques as
and types of schedule risk
Quayle, Dan, on unforeseen events
questioning risks
Rankings, risk
rating scale, risk
reinsurance
Remington rand
requirements documents, identifying risks from
research, importance of
residual risks
resources
risk analysis
classical
ongoing
see also qualitative risk analysis; quantitative risk analysis
risk and cost analysis, discipline of
risk cost analysis
classical risk in
contingency allowance and contingency reserve in
definition of
insurance as a model for
and pricing of insurance risk
risk formula
risk identification
as a continual activity
ongoing
output from process of
practice in
process of
from project charters of statements of work
questioning risks in
from requirements documents
risk register in
systematic
from WBS work packages
risk identification number (risk Id)
risk information sheet
risk management
of business risk
cost analysis in
current process for
fundamental concepts of
goal of
important risks for
information on
methodology and process for
project
risk management infrastructure
risk management plan
risk management policy
risk matrix
risk metrics
risk monitoring and control
and change management
ongoing risk identification and analysis in
plans and policies for
in project monitoring and control
risk premiums
risk rankings
risk rating
risk rating scale
risk register
risk response plan
risk response planning
implementing strategies from
for managing acceptance
for managing opportunities
for managing threat
multi-stage solutions in
organizing for
residual and secondary risk in
tips for
risk(s)
capping
closing
definitions of
excluding
value of
see also specific types of risk
risk score
risk thresholds
risk triage process
risk triggers
root sum square
Rumsfeld, Donald
Schedule risk
schedule risk analysis, see also quantitative schedule analysis tool(s)
secondary risks
sensitivity analysis
sharing opportunities
Sidewise Insights
significance, statistical, see statistical significance
Silver, Spence
Six Sigma
skewed distributions
slack
Smith, edward j., on the Titanic, xvii
specific risk mitigation costs
Stalin, Joseph
standard deviation
statements of work, identifying risks from
statistical analysis
statistical significance
statistics
basic probability rules in
definition of
distribution in
distributions other than normal in
and Law of Large Numbers
normal distribution in
odds in
probability in
standard deviation in
surrender
SWOT analysis
systematic risk identification
Taleb, Nassim Nicholas
task duration risk
theoretical probability
threat
threat management
Three Mile Island nuclear plant
three-point estimates
thresholds, risk
Titanic, RMS, xvii
total float
total risk exposure
tradeoffs
transfer of risk
treaty insurance
triage, see risk triage process
triangular distribution
triple constraints
Tunguska meteor event
Unacceptable risks
uncertainty
of cost estimates
in definitions of risk
in insurance risk
and levels of information
measuring
unquantifiable
union
unknown risks
unplanned change, managing
unplanned responses
upside risk
urgency of risk
U.S. Navy Special Projects Office
user risks
Value of a risk
Vlamingh, Willem de
WAGs (Wildly-Aimed Guesses)
“watch and wait” risks
WBS, see Work Breakdown Structure
Wikipedia
Wildly-Aimed Guesses (WAGs)
workarounds
Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)