{"id":2531,"date":"2017-10-12T01:59:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T06:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2531"},"modified":"2017-09-23T13:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-23T18:15:24","slug":"outsiders-and-risk-on-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2017\/10\/outsiders-and-risk-on-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Outsiders and Risk on Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>We review A fundamental of project planning, execution, and incurring risk.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Risk is the answer to the question, &#8220;What could possibly go wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer is, &#8220;Many things could go wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Some of the possible wrong, however, is avoidable. We can prepare better and ensure we do better. The key word in that statement is &#8220;we.&#8221; What, however, do we do when we aren&#8217;t involved?<\/p>\n<p>In those cases, we incur risk.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a project depends on the performance of an outsider\u2014someone we neither control nor influence. If that person or group doesn&#8217;t perform, we lose. They may lose nothing while we lose everything. That could go wrong, that is risk.<\/p>\n<p>How do we avoid that risk? Simple. We do everything ourselves, except when we can&#8217;t. Then we depend on outsiders. Maybe we can arrange a reward\/punishment with the outsiders. That is influence. When we have no influence, well, that is risk, and that is bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips We review A fundamental of project planning, execution, and incurring risk. Risk is the answer to the question, &#8220;What could possibly go wrong?&#8221; The answer is, &#8220;Many things could go wrong.&#8221; Some of the possible wrong, however, is avoidable. We can prepare better and ensure we do better. The key word in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,44],"tags":[132,166],"class_list":["post-2531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-risk","tag-management","tag-risk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2531\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}