Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project

Identifying and Managing Project Risk: Essential Tools for Failure-Proofing Your Project. Tom Kendrick. 2003. New York: AMACOM. 354 pages.

Tom Kendrick packs his extensive project management experience and practice into the tome he has prepared covering project risk. Included in this volume are all of the nuances of project management that one would expect a seasoned professional to encounter at least once in his or her career. Kendrick clearly indicates that project management is a complex process that involves a wide variety of risks that must be addressed and mitigated to improve the probability of success.

Beyond describing the process of project management in the terms that the Project Management Institute (PMI) uses in its Project Management Professional certification program, Kendrick provides detailed information about the Project Experience Risk Information Library (PERIL) database. Another defining factor of the...