Chapter 5 & 6 Ideas

Chapter 5 ideas

1. All projects experience the unexpected, and all the projects are new. You have to know how to deal with the risks, especially for the potential ones.

2. Risk management is the primary job of a project manager. All project managers do are to reduce various kinds of risk to an acceptable level.

3. Among the five steps in the risk management framework, the last one: continuous risk management is often not given serious consideration. However, only through constant vigilance, the project manager could make the project success in the end.


Chapter 6 ideas

1. By understanding a project’s parts, you could have a better understanding of the whole project. The work breakdown structure (WBS) is a powerful tool for breaking down a project into its component parts.

2. The work breakdown structure identifies all the tasks in a project so that make sure no part is lost. And also it is very helpful in building project teams. Every team member has clear work assignment and how his work should be done.

3. WBS is very important not just because it is a work list, but also it helps the project manager estimate, track process and communicate more effectively.