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PM: Steve Wageman, Risk Management Team Leader, Sandia National Laboratories, will present on "Risk Management"

Basic Applied Project Risk Management: This half-day introduction to applied project risk management will equip participants with the essential knowledge required to perform basic qualitative risk management within a project context. The topics will include risk management planning, identification, framing, categorization, qualitative assessment, prioritization, response planning, monitoring, response, and control. The learning objectives will include:

•    Contrast project risk management to other risk-based disciplines

•     Define key terms related to project risk management

•     Discuss the purpose and components of project risk management

•     Explain the purpose of risk governance and the role of a risk review board

•     Describe the processes and components of project risk management planning

•     Identify project risks using various sources and methodologies

•     Properly define and frame a risk

•     Categorize risks to reduce redundancy, discern trends, and facilitate their management

•     Qualitatively assess project risks by evaluating their probability of occurrence, impact, and urgency

•     Prioritize qualitatively assessed risks

•     Plan and select responses for threat and opportunity risks

•     Monitor the risk environment and the project's performance for risk trigger events and other changes

•     Proactively treat known potential risks with planned corrective actions

•     Reactively respond to realized unknown or accepted risks with workarounds or fallback plans

•     Evaluate implemented responses for effectiveness and to collect lessons-learned

•     Document and communicate risk management results to relevant project stakeholders

•     Close out the risk management process

Steven Wageman possesses over 40 years of management experience and has consulted to or has been directly employed by many different organizations and industries such as the Department of Energy, Boeing, and the US Army Corps of Engineers. He is currently working as the Risk Management Team Leader for a large defense program at Sandia National Laboratories. Steven previously served as the Risk Engineering Program Manager for the transit authority in Seattle, WA, where he was responsible for risk management and analysis on a $72B portfolio of capital projects. He is a Certified Cost Professional (CCP), Certified Estimating Professional (CEP), Earned Value Professional (EVP), and Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) through AACE International, a Project Management Professional (PMP) and Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) through the Project Management Institute, and a Certified Professional Classroom Trainer (CTT+) through CompTIA. Steven was previously an Authorized Primavera Instructor through Oracle Corporation and is also a graduate of the Stanford University Strategic Decision and Risk Management Professional Certificate Program.