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PMI Risk Management Professional Training and certification


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Absolutely, now is the opportune moment to evolve into the certified expert your organization requires. If you actively engage with stakeholders in defining requirements, shaping project outputs, and steering towards intended business outcomes, attaining the PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PMI-PBA)® certification will illuminate your invaluable skills.


PMI Risk Management Professional Syllabus


Risk Strategy and Planning - 22%

  • Task 1
  • Perform a preliminary document analysis

    Gather and review documents
    - Give examples of preliminary documents to review prior to risk identification includes industry benchmarks (if available), previous lessons learned, historical data, and the sources of the above information.
    Determine and assign who is responsible for the preliminary document analysis (e.g., project manager, risk manager, financial controller)

    Establish documents relevant to the risk process

  • Task 2
  • Assess project environment for threats and opportunities

    Determine which OPA / EEF / project methodology is needed (e.g., agile, waterfall, hybrid, etc.)
    Analyze the different environmental factors to be considered in the planning phase (e.g., PESTLE, SWOT analysis)
    Determine the organizational and cultural risk appetite
    - Analyze environment for risk culture maturity
    Evaluate the project management information system process and data
    Conduct a stakeholder analysis
    Analyze constraints to risk management
    - Government, market laws/rules, organizational, environmental, and technical risks
    Focus stakeholders on creating a culture of risk awareness

    Determine business driver of project, including key assumptions, benefits, and materialization of project.

  • Task 3
  • Confirm risk thresholds based on risk appetites
    Align project risk thresholds to organizational risk appetite
    Calculate the risk the organization can absorb (e.g., financial, scope, environmental, technical, legal, schedule, quality, contract, etc.)
    Discuss risk thresholds
    Lead conflict resolutions between stakeholders in agreeing on risk appetite

  • Task 4
  • Establish risk management strategy
    Establish risk processes and tools
    Provide risk management templates/forms
    Determine risk metrics
    Identify risk categories
    Coach/mentor team on risk management best practices (servant leadership)
    Lead stakeholders to adopt the risk strategy

  • Task 5
  • Document the risk management plan
    Define organizational risk roles and responsibilities
    - Align roles and responsibilities with a project RAM (e.g., RACI) chart
    Prepare a list of the key artifacts/resources that will be used to compile a risk management plan
    Outline the list of key risk management activities (e.g., who, what, when, where, how)
    Explain how the Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) can be used to support the risk management plan
    Define a risk communication plan
    Define risk prioritization criteria
    Define stakeholder empowerment and education strategy

  • Task 6
  • Plan and lead risk management activities with stakeholders
    Collaborate with the team that would conduct the risk planning on the project
    Leverage stakeholder analysis done by the project manager
    Manage stakeholder risk appetite and attitudes
    Engage stakeholders in the risk prioritization process
    Set appropriate expectations with stakeholders on the rules of engagement
    Tailor risk communication for stakeholders
    Lead stakeholder empowerment for risk strategies in the risk management plan
    Train, coach, and educate stakeholders in risk principles and processes in order to create shared understanding of principles and processes, and foster engagement in risk management

    Risk Identification - 23%
  • Task 1
  • Conduct risk identification exercises
    Conduct meetings, interviews, focus groups, and other SME support activities
    Perform detailed analyses of risk identification exercise results
    Analyze documents, audio transcripts, telemetry data, etc. and understand business context of information
    Indicate risks as threats or opportunities

  • Task 2
  • Examine assumption and constraint analyses
    Leverage the results of the assumption and constraint analysis
    Categorize assumptions and constraints
    Assess the risk associated with each assumption and/or constraint
    Recognize the relationship between assumptions and/or constraints, and project objectives (e.g., predict the cascade effect of project stakeholder holiday schedules on project timelines)
    Encourage stakeholders to challenge assumptions and constraints

  • Task 3
  • Document risk triggers and thresholds based on context/environment
    Assess, confirm, and document risk compliance thresholds, and categories against updated risk data
    Assess and document risk triggers, causes and timing
    Assess and document risk consequences and/or impact
    Empower stakeholders to challenge existing thresholds

  • Task 4
  • Develop risk register
    Analyze the validity of identified risks and triggers
    Examine the risk attributes like probability, impact, urgency
    Establish risk origin and ownership e.g., internal/external
    Classify risks as threats or opportunities

    Risk Analysis - 23%
  • Task 1
  • Perform qualitative analysis
    Perform a nominal classification or risks in the RBS using classifications from the risk management plan (e.g., environment, organizational, project management, technical, etc.)
    Estimate the impact of risk on project schedule, budget, resources, and scope
    Prioritize the risk based on impact, and urgency
    Apply the risk matrices
    - Agreed-upon assessment approach, Historical information, Definitions of probability and impact, Risk categories, Pre-established criteria
    Perform an ordinal classification
    Coach stakeholders on risk categorization strategies

  • Task 2
  • Perform quantitative analysis
    Analyze risk data and process performance information against established metrics
    Analyze a project's general risks
    Perform a forecast and trend analysis on new and historical information
    Perform sensitivity analysis
    - Monte Carlo, decision trees, critical path, expected monetary value, etc.
    Perform risk weighting and calculate risk priority

  • Task 3
  • Identify threats and opportunities
    Assess project risk complexity
    - SWOT analysis, Ishikawa, Tree Diagram
    Perform an impact analysis on project objectives
    - project scopes, schedule cost, and resources, quality, and stakeholders
    Assess project compliance objectives against organizational strategic objectives
    - procedures, project plans, corporate, and project governance, regulatory governance
    Empower stakeholders to independently identify threats and opportunities

    Risk Response - 13%
  • Task 1
  • Plan risk response
    Determine appropriate risk response strategy
    - avoid, accept, mitigate, enhance, contingency planning etc.
    Decide the risk response actions (time bound) based on the risk response strategies and identify action owners
    Assess the effectiveness of the risk response actions against the identified strategy and the project objectives impact
    - cost/schedule/environment etc., effect of the action on the probability or the risk impact
    Illustrate and communicate effectiveness of the risk response strategies
    - risk burndown chart, dot plots
    Determine the work around
    Allocate responsibilities
    Outline an appropriate responsibility matrix for a metricized project environment
    Re-evaluate organizational risks

  • Task 2
  • Implement risk response
    Execute the risk response plan(s)
    Execute the contingency plan(s)
    Encourage stakeholders to provide feedback on the risk response
    Evaluate and react to secondary and residual risks from the response implementation
    - Improvise as needed

    Monitor and Close Risks - 19%
  • Task 1
  • Gather and analyze performance data
    Reconcile performance data & reports from risk relevant work packages
    Analyze data to determine the completion status against the baseline
    Perform a variance analysis
    Monitor impact against overall project risk exposure to enterprise

  • Task 2
  • Monitor residual & secondary risks
    Monitor risk response and document residual risk
    Monitor risk response for secondary risks
    Assess impact of residual and secondary risks on project objectives
    Update and communicate impact of residual and secondary risks

  • Task 3
  • Provide information required to update relevant project documents
    Aggregate and summarize risk data, and update project documents
    - risk register, lessons learned, project management plan, change logs etc.
    Monitor and close out expired risks

  • Task 4
  • Monitor project risk levels
    - Assess project risk level
    - Prepare reports for different stakeholders
    - Communicate risk levels to key stakeholders