Risk Up Front: Managing Projects in a Complex World by Adam JosephsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Hooter: Spinning project management across another axis - that of pushing risk up front.
Was introduced to the book part of a workshop by Adam and I'll skip colouring the book review from my experience with the workshop and the author but focus purely on the book. Using research and their own combined experiences across decades of consultancy, the risk up front framework does have some interesting and feasible approaches to project management through concepts like "the cost of being late" being articulated, creating a culture of raising risks and decoupling from solving for them or not having solved them part of the raising. In a way, the gamification (tangential term I know ) of raising risks creates a collaborative cross functional team culture that allows for teams to cover all their bases or be aware of it. I can imagine King Arthur's round table using this concept but we'll stick to modern age technology projects for this conversation. Love how humans are categorised as "optimistic procrastinators" and I thought I was unique. Whilst the book can get a bit dry for general reading, getting a sense of all the concepts shared across another axis of project management get you rethinking on the fundamentals and open up new avenues on how you work towards ensuring successful projects so suggest it as reading material in the arsenal of successful project managers kits.
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