Failure-Proof Projects

What Are the Chances? Overcoming Barriers in Assessing Risk Probabilities
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Paper delivered at the 2012 PMI North American Global Conference, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Managing the Right Risks
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PowerPoint Presentation delivered at the 2011 Project Risk Management Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Risk on the Bleeding Edge
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PowerPoint Presentation delivered at the 2011 PMI Silicon Valley Chapter Symposium, Santa Clara, CA.

Disentangling Project Opportunities and Risks
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Paper delivered at the 2009 PMI Silicon Valley Chapter Symposium, Santa Clara, CA.

Avoiding Black Swans: Managing Risks Using the PERIL Database
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Paper delivered at the 2008 PMI North American Global Conference, Denver, CO.

Program, Portfolio, and Enterprise Risk …We’re not in Kansas Any More
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Paper delivered at the 2008 PMI NorCal Conference, Palo Alto, CA.

Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Holistic Assessment of Project Risk
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Paper delivered at the 2008 PMI RiskSIG Conference, San Diego CA.

Results without Authority: Controlling a Project when the Team Doesn’t Report to You
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Paper delivered at the 2007 PMI NorCal Conference, San Francisco, CA.

Obtaining Useful Three-Point Estimates for Real Project Activities
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Paper delivered at the 2007 PMI RiskSIG Conference, San Fransisco, CA.

Catch a Wave and You’re Sitting All over the World
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Paper co-authored with Wolfgang Blickle and delivered at the 2006 PMI North American Global Conference, Seattle, WA.

A Tale of Two Projects: The Panama Canal and the Birth of Project and Risk Management
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Paper delivered at the 2006 PMI RiskSIG Conference, Houston, TX.

Defining and Implementing Metrics for Project Risk Reduction
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Paper delivered at the May 2005 PMI RiskSIG Conference, Washington, DC.

Overcoming Project Risk: Lessons from the Peril Database
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Paper delivered at the September 2003 PMI Annual Conference, Baltimore, MD.