Elizabeth HarrinDirector, The Otobos Group
I’m an author and project manager living and working in London. I …
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London Mayor Boris Johnson was widely criticized recently for the city’s failure to keep public services operational during the worst snowfall the United Kingdom’s capital had seen for 20 years. Why were there no buses? Simple — the mitigation activity required to prepare for the atypical amount of snow was deemed too significant.
Widely accepted risk management theory says that doing nothing is an appropriate response to some risks. But what happens on a project when you’ve done no risk mitigation and then the risk materializes?
“When you are running a large project and have already passed the project planning phase, the …
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