Course Description
Risk Management (APPEL-RM)
Audience
This course is designed for NASA’s technical workforce, including systems engineers and project personnel developing the competencies required to succeed as a leader of a project team, functional team, or small project.
Goal
This one-day course enhances knowledge of NASA’s approach to managing risk and demonstrates the impact risks have on meeting program and project objectives. It provides practical knowledge on how to identify risks before problems arise and develops the relationship between decisions and risk. The course also includes discussions on how to develop risk statements and describes potential mitigation options.
When asked what participants learned that would be most beneficial to their work, they said…
"I thought the material was well organized and well presented. I was able to pull a lot of useful information from the material."
—Ohio Aerospace Institute, Brookpark, OH, 2007
Learning Methods
Multi-media presentations, lectures, interactive discussions, use of current program / project examples, and case studies will enhance your learning of risk management.
Specific Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Define NASA’s risk management process.
- Apply the NASA paradigm to rank and prioritize risks.
- Define where risks come from and the issues and concerns that lead to risks.
- Understand the relationships between project decisions and project risks.
- Explain individual roles and responsibilities for identification and management of risks.
- Use various tools and techniques for identifying, documenting and communicating risks.
- Discuss the relationship between risk magnitude and individual perspective on the organization.
- Explain trending and tracking approaches and the use of metrics.
- Explain the twelve rules for effective management of risks on NASA projects.
- Develop skills /competencies in how to utilize the NASA Risk Management Process.
- Write acceptable statements of risks.
- Implement mitigation plans.
- Develop skills /competencies in how to utilize the NASA Risk Management Process.
Notes
This course is registered by the Project Management Institute (PMI) for 7 Professional Development Units (PDUs). PMI Course ID: RM022
