PMCP 7204 - Managing Project Risk
Course Description
This online instructor-led course explores quantitative and qualitative techniques to identify and analyze project risk factors (risk event, event probability, and event impact). A variety of risk response choices are discussed, and risk identification and risk response are practiced in workshop groups. Quantitative techniques are applied to problems, but don’t worry, advanced mathematics is not used!
This is one of five core courses in Level II of the Accelerated Project Management Certificate.
Course Outline
Topics:
Introduction and Risk Factors
- Risk Management Process including risk classification systems, risk tolerance, response development, mitigation
- Risk Tools including expected monetary value, payoff tables, decision trees, critical path network
Learner Outcomes
This course provides project stakeholders and project team members with a basic understanding of how agile projects are structured, including an introduction to the common Scrum framework, and how disciplined approaches to agile can be used to set (and manage) realistic stakeholder expectations.
Notes
This course is offered in partnership with Procept Associates Ltd.
Learners will require access to a computer with high-speed internet access. Learners will be sent a Zoom link approximately one week prior to the start of the course.
Active participation (at least 80% attendance) and successful completion of learning activities is required to successfully complete the course
Prerequisites
To ensure successful completion of this course, it is expected that learners will have:
- Completed the Project Management Essentials class
- Basic computer skills
- English language proficiency
- Some post-secondary education (strongly recommended)