Risk is a key issue for every project manager. How the various risks are handled can often define the final outcome of a project; it can determine its overall worth to both sponsors and contractors and its ultimate success or failure.

Alan Webb's The Project Manager's Guide to Handling Risk is a concise, practical guide to the process for every project manager. Starting from an explanation of how our current ideas of risk have evolved, the author:

• introduces the nature of risk and the basis of risk analysis;
• explores how and where different patterns of risk emerge within the life of a project, and
• explains the variety of tools and techniques for risk analysis and management and shows how to use them.

The book also provides a comprehensive assessment of the current range of software tools that deals with the various aspects of risk management. Included with The Project Manager's Guide to Handling Risk is a free CD-ROM containing samples of available software packages.

Contents: Introduction; Origins and history; Understanding the nature of risk; Risks in projects; Project selection; Making decisions in uncertain situations; Changing conditions; The risk management process; Organizational issues; Managing with risk analysis methods; Software for risk analysis and management. Appendix I Terms used in the discussion and description of risk analysis and management; Appendix II Software products and vendors; Appendix III Software products on the CD-ROM. Index.

About the Author: Alan Webb, also author of Project Management for Successful Product Innovation and Using Earned Value, was a senior project manager, author and independent project management consultant.

This title is also available as an ebook, ISBN 978-0-566-08970-1