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To manage a project effectively, project risk management is vital.

“It’s just common sense, isn’t it?” she said.

Commercial and humanitarian projects have very different missions and goals.

Risk management is about understanding and controlling factors that may negatively impact a project and is an important planning stage of any project.

Risk, is defined by APM as ‘the potential of a situation or event to impact on the achievement of specific objectives’.

Project risk management helps with achieving project objectives, especially those concerning cost and time.

Effective project risk management is key to a successful project.

Since the dawn of time, mankind has used myths to make sense of the uncertainty that surrounds us.

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The introduction to any blog is fraught with risks, which is rather apt! Will you stay, or will you go? Context of what we’re going to be exploring matters, so I’ll set the scene: It’s that time of the month again, the project is chugging along, stakeholders are calm and the plan is full of ticked boxes, but here comes a dark shadow, ready to take over and push the project into darkness; ‘risk’ is reluctantly added to the agenda.