Practical Schedule Risk Analysis

An internationally-recognized expert in risk management, Hulett is a leader in risk management activities at the Project Management Institute, and consults and trains clients worldwide. Organization and project leaders and managers will find his book a valuable guide to using schedule risk analysis in project planning. Building on the Critical Path Method, schedule risk analysis provides a way to investigate the uncertainty in activity durations to derive their implications for the project schedule, and to plan effective risk mitigation actions. An overview of the method is followed by detailed explanation of the key features from the beginning concepts and building blocks to the most sophisticated aspects of the commercial risk analysis tools now available. The methods described have been successfully used by the author in diverse industries including construction, oil and gas, information systems, environmental restoration, and aerospace/defense. Distributed by Ashgate. Annotation 穢2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)