The cited book below is a book from week 6 regarding this assignment, if you are able to look this book up please do so!!! I also attached in the files my discussion question from week 5 which is also where you can reference to for this assignment
Instructions!!
This discussion is based on the research you performed in Weeks 5 and 6.
- Examine qualitative and quantitative risk assessment tools and techniques and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each.
- Identify what tools are available to prioritize and categorize risk factors and their impacts, as well as probabilities of occurrence.
- Which tools and techniques would you consider to be best practices and a good fit for your organization?
Project, Management Institute. Practice Standard for Project Risk Management, Project Management Institute, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.library.capella.edu/lib/capella/detail.action?docID=3386832.
The characteristics of project management environments where innovation is possible are flexibility, speed, increased efficiency, and control over unstable factors. These become critical at different phases of the PMLC and ensure the success of the projects while presenting variations in difficulties. Faster delivery plays a crucial component in inventive project management. The concept of time to market is of paramount significance to organizations since they would prefer to be on the market as soon as it is feasible since this offers certain competitive benefits and addresses customers’ changing needs. Such practices are evident in using agile frameworks that work by designing projects into small chunks of work that can be completed in short sprints. For example, in the software development cycle, when teams have principle ideas, they can give consumers small working releases that are functional and then use feedback to improve the final product in the following releases. However, speed optimization may stress resources and even lower the quality in case of improper management. Flexibility makes it possible for project teams to respond most efficiently to alterations across the PMLC. This may include changes in strategies, alteration in resources, or even changes in objectives, mainly because of changes in needs or the emergence of more complications. Due to the level of competition, many organizations in growing sectors, including technology and marketing, need flexible processes like Scrum or Kanban to quickly change course if market conditions change or customers’ needs change. Besides the fact that flexibility offers innovation and responsiveness, it has the demerit of complicating the organizational structure due to continuous adjustment, which may alter the scope and duration of projects. Increased Productivity indicates the efficiency and resource consumption rates during project implementation. Methods like lean management or the application of the direct access model simplify work processes while boosting productivity (Gomez-Molina et al., 2020). For instance, lean principles help eliminate waste and make production more efficient. However, productivity is often exhausting, so the constant pursuit of productivity may undermine team members, resulting in issues such as risk management or non-disclosure of stakeholders. As a result, managing uncertainty remains an essential component of innovative projects from their initiation to the closing stage due to the development of efficient risk management approaches (Smith & Merritt, 2020). This aids in the formulation of mitigation plans and avails opportunities for teams before the mitigation of risks. Different industries, such as biotechnology or renewable energy, characterized by uncertainty arising from new technologies or changing regulations, call for risk assessment. Alas, stability implies the need for perpetual supervision and the commitment to flexibly respond to previously unrecognized influencing factors that can shape the results of projects in unexpected ways. Of these factors, it is vital to attain priority within the PMLC for better project control. The major benefits have been listed below: delivery time and productivity impacts are strategic. At the same time, flexibility and proper risk management are the critical core competencies that help overcome unfavorable circumstances and strengthen a project (Stern, 2020). Balancing all these factors leads to the adaptive management of the project and the provision of new insights right from the social contacts while at the same time ensuring that the cons of every aspect of project management are outweighed by the pros for the best prospects of the project. References Gómez-Molina, D. L., & Moyano-Fuentes, J. (2022). Lean management in universities: a systematic literature review. International Journal of Lean Six Sigma, 13(1), 156-177.. Smith, P. G., & Merritt, G. M. (2020). Proactive risk management: Controlling uncertainty in product development. productivity press. Stern, T. V. (2020). Lean and agile project management: how to make any project better, faster, and more cost effective. Productivity Press.