All Episodes
Displaying 61 - 80 of 84 in total
Episode 61 — Domain V Overview: Monitor and Close
Domain V unifies everything you have built so far into a disciplined loop of observation, decision, and closure. The exam expects you to demonstrate how risks are moni...
Episode 62 — Tracking Indicators, Variance, and Trends
Effective monitoring begins with meaningful measures. This episode clarifies how to select indicators that align with causes and objectives, how to distinguish varianc...
Episode 63 — Risk Reviews vs. Retrospectives
Risk reviews and retrospectives both look back, but they serve different purposes and happen on different cadences. This episode defines a risk review as a governance ...
Episode 64 — Monitoring Residuals and Secondaries
After responses deploy, the job is not over—residual and secondary risks must be tracked with the same rigor as original entries. This episode explains how to reassess...
Episode 65 — Trigger Watchlists and Early Warning
A trigger watchlist is the practical bridge between indicators and action. This episode shows how to build and operate one: list each trigger with its threshold, the a...
Episode 66 — Updating Registers, Plans, and Baselines
Risk information is perishable, so this episode explains how to keep your registers, management plans, and baselines synchronized as the project evolves. You will lear...
Episode 67 — Close Criteria and Administrative Closure
Knowing when a risk is truly closed is just as important as identifying it in the first place. This episode defines closure criteria: the trigger window has passed wit...
Episode 68 — Reporting Overall Risk Exposure
Beyond individual entries, leaders need to understand overall project risk—the integrated effect of all uncertainties on objectives. This episode explains how to synth...
Episode 69 — Executive Dashboards as Narratives
Dashboards tell stories, and this episode explains how to design risk dashboards that inform decisions instead of simply displaying colors. We shift the mindset from r...
Episode 70 — Issue vs. Risk: Boundaries and Hand-Offs
Understanding where a risk ends and an issue begins is vital to governance control. This episode clarifies that a risk is an uncertain event that may occur, while an i...
Episode 71 — Integrated Change Control and Risk
Integrated change control is where risk management meets governance in real time. This episode explains how proposed changes—scope adjustments, schedule shifts, cost r...
Episode 72 — Procurement and Contract Risk (T&M, FP, CP)
Procurement shifts portions of risk to or from suppliers, and contract type determines how exposure is shared. This episode compares time-and-materials (T&M), fixed-pr...
Episode 73 — Vendor and Supply Chain Risk Fundamentals
Vendor and supply chain risks compound because they cross organizational boundaries. This episode outlines fundamentals the exam expects you to apply: segmentation of ...
Episode 74 — Compliance, Legal, and Regulatory Risk
Compliance, legal, and regulatory exposures introduce hard constraints and nonnegotiable timelines. This episode clarifies how to convert obligations—privacy rules, sa...
Episode 75 — Safety, Environmental, and Social Risk
Projects operate within communities and ecosystems, making safety, environmental, and social risk both ethical imperatives and governance requirements. This episode fr...
Episode 76 — Quality Risk and Fitness-for-Use
Quality risk concerns whether deliverables will meet functional expectations and stakeholder satisfaction, not just specifications. This episode clarifies how to expre...
Episode 77 — Financial and Currency Exposure in Projects
Exchange rates, inflation, and interest fluctuations can quietly shift project economics. This episode teaches you to identify, quantify, and respond to financial and ...
Episode 78 — Cyber and Information Security Risk for PMs
Digital assets and data flows create vulnerabilities every project manager must understand. This episode outlines how to identify and treat cyber and information secur...
Episode 79 — Operational Readiness and Transition Risk
A project’s finish line is not delivery—it is sustained operation. This episode examines operational readiness and transition risk: whether people, processes, and syst...
Episode 80 — Portfolio and Program Risk vs. Project Risk
Not all risks live at the project level. This episode differentiates portfolio, program, and project risks—each with distinct horizons and governance layers. Portfolio...