Identifying and Managing Project Risk

Kendrick works through risk in the order you meet it on a project, starting with scope risk, then schedule and resource risk, then the analysis and response planning that follow. He draws on a database of failure modes collected from real projects, so the identification chapters read as checklists you can run against your own plan rather than as theory. Later chapters cover quantifying overall project risk, setting contingency and reserve, and monitoring risk once delivery has started and attention has moved elsewhere. The fourth edition adds material on agile and hybrid delivery and on distributed teams. Suited to anyone who needs evidence rather than instinct when arguing for a buffer.