| Adam Josephs - Principal Consultant -
Celerity Consulting Group LLC
Most risk lists on projects are storage.
They become an interesting list of problems the project is facing but often
remain bullet points on project review slides and status reports and do
not show up in specific and powerful action on the project. Decisions
and decisive action is often delayed until the problem becomes a crisis
or the project is unrecoverable. The sad truth is that the vast majority
of problems that occur late in projects were known by someone on the project
very early on. This knowledge is not enough to ensure effective early
mitigation.
Extreme Risk Mitigation requires a shift
in the fundamental thinking and language of the project team. It
provides a paradigm shift that results in the identification of risk that
actually leads to effective, appropriate and immediate mitigation. It leads
to the mitigation of risk that project teams used to think were “unmitigatable.”
This talk used real examples from IT and technology product development
projects and presented specific proven structures that can be implemented
by any project team to greatly increase the success of projects in the
face of risk.
Adam Josephs is a Partner at Celerity Consulting
Group LLC. He has managed engineering projects and product organizations
for over 10 years at Apple Computer, Microsoft and a variety of Internet
startups. He has lectured and consulted on product development strategy
and accelerating technology projects in startup and established companies
around the world. Adam is a graduate of Stanford University, currently
teaches at New York University and speaks at industry conferences including
PMI, ProjectWorld and Management Roundtable. You can visit Adam's web-site
at: www.celerityconsulting.com.
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