4STEP 1—IDENTIFYING PROJECT RISKS
Each of the next five chapters covers one step of the five-step risk management process. If you have not already done so, we suggest that you first read Chapter 3, which provides an overview of the five steps. This will allow you to absorb these chapters more efficiently.
We cover risk identification here as though it occurs once, at the beginning of the project. In reality, a miniversion recurs regularly throughout the project to catch new risks, as described in Chapter 8.
Plan and Prepare
Some project management sources suggest starting with a separate risk-management planning step, which would include ...
