Managing Project Risks (Formerly Risk vs. Quality: Balancing the Odds) - Online - School of Continuing Education, University Of Wisconsin

	Managing Project Risks (Formerly Risk vs. Quality: Balancing the Odds)

	While demands increase to deliver faster and cheaper, the requirement to create a quality product or service remains unchanged. Generating quality deliverables is key to customer satisfaction, but understanding and managing impediments to acceptance of these deliverables is needed. In this class you will review tools and processes to strike the balance to reducing risks while increasing quality to maximize project results. Value to You • Align teams around high-risk decisions and buy-in of stakeholders • Minimize uncertainty in risky decisions • Increase your toolkit for identifying and avoiding project 'land mines' • Practice defining and delivering stakeholder satisfaction • Learn ways to integrate quality and risk management into project work plans • Gain immediate results to take back to your daily applications
More ▼ Seminar Outline Getting Started Setting the stage for quality Securing requirements from project stakeholders Determining risk management strategies The role of project teams in risk and quality management Risk Road Map Identifying risks in project deliverables The value of risk work breakdown Evaluating stakeholder risk sensitivities Your personal risk tolerance Defining risk triggers and thresholds Developing risk response strategies for Dealing with showstoppers Developing a risk register Incorporating contracts into the plan Presenting the risk plan Reducing risks in the project management plan Using the Risk ID Checklist Planning for Quality Quality tools and techniques Planning and performing quality assurance Quality assurance vs. quality control Developing a quality planning toolkit for your project Roles of stakeholders in quality assurance and quality control Determining stakeholder requirements relative to quality Evaluating the cost of quality Balancing Quality vs. Risk Integrating quality and risk into the project management plan Creating a link between standardization and improvement/problem solving Putting it all together Close ▲ Benefits and Learning Outcomes ▼ Close ▲
	Prerequisites Project Management Foundations
	Notes Register for the Project Management Certificate



	Course Accessible: May 13-June 7 Location: Instructor: Barbara M. Farmerie , MBA, PMP Fee: $845 (Discount is given when taking all classes in an online format) CEUs: 1.4/PDUs: 14 Program No. 5025-Z023 Add To Registration Form Check Registration Form


	For more information, contact:
		Business & Management General Information, sce-bus@uwm.edu, 414-227-3220 Maribeth Sacho, Program Associate, msacho@uwm.edu, 414-227-3337 Anne O'Meara, Program Director, aomeara@uwm.edu, 414-227-3311

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