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Managing Project Risks Available Face-To-Face   Available Online

 

Companies are demanding products and services faster and cheaper, so understanding and managing risks to quality deliverables is key to customer satisfaction. In this class, you will review tools and processes that help mitigate risk and increase quality. 


Value to the Participant
- 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


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Seminar Outline
Getting Started
• Developing a quality management plan
• 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 negative and positive risks
• 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

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  Sessions  
Course Accessible: May 13-June 14
Location: Available Online
Instructor: Barbara M. Farmerie , MBA, PMP
Fee: $845
CEUs: 1.4/PDUs: 14
Program No. 5025-Z023
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Thu.-Fri., Oct. 24-25
8:30am-4:30pm
Location: UWM School of Continuing Education (Click link for directions)
Instructor: Barbara M. Farmerie , MBA, PMP
Fee: $845
CEUs: 1.4/PDUs: 14
Program No. 5025-0503
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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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