All Episodes
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Episode 21 — Facilitating Buy-In and Alignment
Gaining buy-in for risk management means securing commitment, not just attendance, from sponsors and teams. This episode explains how to align diverse interests around...
Episode 22 — Domain II Overview: Risk Identification
Domain II shifts focus from planning to uncovering specific risks that could affect objectives. This episode outlines the identification process, inputs, and expected ...
Episode 23 — Planning and Running ID Workshops
Identification workshops are where risk awareness becomes collective insight, so this episode explains how to plan, conduct, and document them effectively. You will le...
Episode 24 — Facilitation Skills for Risk Leads
Facilitation is a test of composure and neutrality, qualities that define effective risk professionals. This episode covers techniques to guide discussions, manage con...
Episode 25 — Assumptions and Constraints Analysis
Every project carries assumptions that may prove false and constraints that limit options. This episode explains how to identify, analyze, and record both so they beco...
Episode 26 — Surfacing Hidden Assumptions Fast
Hidden assumptions are silent risk multipliers, so this episode focuses on rapid techniques to expose them before they harden into schedule or cost surprises. We defin...
Episode 27 — Causes, Triggers, and Early Symptoms
This episode clarifies three terms the exam loves to intertwine: causes, triggers, and early symptoms. Causes are underlying conditions that make a risk plausible, tri...
Episode 28 — Writing Clear, Testable Risk Statements
Ambiguous risk statements sabotage analysis and response, so this episode teaches a consistent pattern for clarity. We adopt a simple structure—Because [cause], [risk ...
Episode 29 — Building a High-Value Risk Register
A register is not a parking lot—it is a decision engine. This episode shows how to design a register that accelerates governance by structuring fields for ownership, e...
Episode 30 — Maintaining Traceability Over Time
Traceability connects strategy to day-to-day actions, so this episode explains how to preserve a clear line from appetite and thresholds to identification, analysis, r...
Episode 31 — Brainstorming and Nominal Group Technique
This episode explores two cornerstone techniques for risk identification: brainstorming and the Nominal Group Technique (NGT). Brainstorming encourages open idea gener...
Episode 32 — Delphi and Anonymous Elicitation Methods
When objectivity is critical or stakeholders hold strong opinions, anonymity preserves candor. This episode explains the Delphi technique and other anonymous elicitati...
Episode 33 — Lessons Learned and Checklists Sweep
Historical insight is one of the fastest ways to uncover hidden risk patterns, and this episode shows how to mine organizational lessons learned and checklists effecti...
Episode 34 — Using Risk Categories and RBS Thinking
Risk Breakdown Structure (RBS) thinking brings order to uncertainty. This episode explains how categorizing risks by source—technical, external, organizational, or pro...
Episode 35 — Opportunity Identification and Framing
Opportunity management is risk management applied to positive outcomes, and this episode ensures you can frame it with the same rigor. We define opportunity as an unce...
Episode 36 — Domain III Overview: Risk Analysis
Domain III moves from collecting risks to interpreting their meaning with disciplined judgment. This episode orients you to the analysis objectives, artifacts, and log...
Episode 37 — Qualitative Analysis: Objectives and Flow
Qualitative analysis converts a long list of identified risks into a prioritized, comprehensible set of concerns that leaders can act on quickly. In this episode, we d...
Episode 38 — Scales, Probability–Impact, and Scoring
Scales are the language of qualitative analysis, and sloppy definitions produce unreliable results. This episode shows you how to design probability and impact scales ...
Episode 39 — Beyond P-I: Urgency and Proximity
Probability and impact are necessary, not sufficient. This episode adds urgency—the need to act quickly due to accelerating exposure—and proximity—the time until a ris...
Episode 40 — Prioritization and Heat Map Pitfalls
Prioritization converts analysis into action, but common traps make results unreliable. This episode critiques heat maps as communication tools: they are fine for orie...