Risk Management: We Need to Change the Name

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Risk Management: We Need to Change the Name

Posted January 30, 2001 | Leadership | Amplify

Risk management is a critical part of project management, but it has one major problem -- the word "risk." This word is ruining the subject, and we should do something about it.

About The Author

Dwayne Phillips

Dwayne Phillips has been a computer and systems engineer with the US government since 1980. He coauthored It Sounded Good When We Started, Working with People on Projects with Roy O'Bryan and wrote The Software Project Manager's Handbook, Principles That Work at Work , now in its second edition. Dwayne Phillips can be reached at d.phillips at computer.org. His Web site ishttp://dwaynephillips.net.

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Risk Management: We Need to Change the Name

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