PMI RiskSIG Symposium



	PMI RiskSIG Symposium on Risk Management - 10th Anniversary

	"Discovering the Jewels in Risk Management - Sharing What We Have Learned." Philadelphia: April 28 - May 1, 2008 Radisson Hotel Valley Forge, King of Prussia, PA

	Mark your calendars for the end of April and Register Now to attend the 2008 Eastern RiskSIG Symposium. Join your colleagues and celebrate our Tenth Anniversary as a chartered PMI SIG! PMI RiskSIG has partnered with Project Summit BusinessAnalystWorld: Philadelphia to co-locate our North American Symposium on Risk Management with their conference. The synergy between the conferences is just perfect and we hope that you will take advantage of the opportunity and benefit from the increased content being offered. Once you've registered (regardless of discipline) you are free to attend any Symposium Conference track you wish. Additionally we will be offering Risk Management workshops during the workshop portion of the event. The co-location of our RiskSIG Symposium on Risk Management and Project Summit BusinessAnalystWorld provides the best opportunity for you to bring your entire team to gain the mission critical education, tools techniques and best practices you need to support your projects, requirements and team. REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN the website has been updated with full content for our Symposium on Risk Management and Workshops! We look forward to seeing you in April! Please enter source code PMRS when registering and select "RiskSIG Symposium" as your primary interest. Visit the Website Conference Pricing

	Program At-A-Glance: Symposium Sessions (April 28-29)
	Project Risk Management: Seeing the Process As The Product - *Charles Bosler, RiskSIG Chairman* Projecting Risk from Stakeholder Analysis using RACI - *Steve Schwarz, S41 Consulting Services* Implementing A Risk Assessment/Management Process In Any Organization Why's This So Hard? - *Glenn R. Koller, BP America Inc.* COSO Enterprise Risk Management and the Project Manager - *Robert Moeller, Compliance Control Systems, Inc.</li> The Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) as a String of Pearls of Wisdom - Angyne Schock-Smith, Arysta Projex, Inc.* Managing Risk for a Successful Project Recovery - *Dhanu Kothari, D2i Consulting and Romeo Mitchell, Hewlett Packard (Canada) Co.* 9 Critical Steps to Reduce the Risks Associated with Using External Consultants On Your Projects - *Bob Brown, Consulting Intelligence* How To Make Risky and Important Decisions In Groups - *Dr. David Hillson, Risk Doctor Partners* Workshop Sessions (April 30 - May 1): April 30: How To Accomplish Continuous Improvement of Your Risk Management Process - David C. Hall, ManTech SRS Technologies. Lessons Learned can contain a wealth of information about the nature of your business and organization, regardless of what you do or how you do it. Using this knowledge, if evaluated and developed in terms of judgment and error, provide excellent examples of mistakes (risks) that should not be repeated and models of good risk management judgment. Use of Lessons Learned can demonstrate how the same or similar mistakes (risks) have lead to repeated failures. But these Lessons Learned can also have a dual value by providing a guide for improving your risk management process by using them to understand the common pitfalls in an existing process. May 1: Show Me Some ID: Advanced Risk Identification Techniques - Becky Reed Steve Waddell, Reed Integration, Inc This one-day Advanced Risk Identification Course provides a detailed review of the basic risk management process including planning, identification, assessment/analysis, tracking/reporting and closure methods. Focus then narrows to the risk identification process and the utilization of failure and safety analyses to extract potential risks for detailed assessment and tracking. Understand the basics to structuring and implementing an FMEA process including criteria establishment, failure identification, failure assessment, prioritization, and management. Learn the FTA structured approach to identifying series of failures and their impacts on systems or components and understand the methods for analyzing potential process hazards and hazardous operations for your project. Identify risk areas from each type of failure and safety analysis and learn tricks to managing safety-related risk items within the boundaries of your existing risk management process. For full details visit: www.projectsummit.com Earn up to 25 PDUs! BA's learn all about the new BABOK sit for the IIBA Certification Exam! BA's and PM's learn the soft and technical skills. 60 75 Minute track sessions over 2 days 12 Full day workshops over 2 days Keynote Speaker Formal Roundtable Discussions Panel Discussions Networking receptions - open to all Diversified Business Communications (owner and producer of Project Summit BusinessAnalystWorld) is a PMI Registered Education Provider.
	For further information contact us at conference@RiskSIG.com.