Risk Management, 5th Edition

Preface

Welcome to the future. What we thought might be here tomorrow is now a reality. The challenge for most of us is trying to predict what’s coming tomorrow and how we’ll deal with it. Risk, as a future phenomenon, is the focus of many business and personal discussions and is perennially part of our decision making. The challenges come when I’m creating a degree of consistency in risk management and risk process. It is part of the eternal quest to control some small component of the future. The latest steps in that quest are reflected in two significant project management documents—A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), Fifth Edition, and the project management guidance of ISO 21500. These latest guides take ...