PM 101: Workshop 8 - Risk, Issue, Change, and Conflict Management

Location: In-Person | COLE 340

Date: May 8, 2025  

Time: 1pm – 3pm  

Facilitator: David Vincenti

Projects, especially the larger and more complex projects, are full of challenges.  In this workshop, we will take a closer look at these challenges including risks, issues, change, and conflicts.  Risks are future uncertainties, which can result in both positive and negative consequences.  As such, project managers often have more time to plan and respond to risks. Issues are problems or obstacles that have occurred or are occurring, which means that project managers must confront them immediately.  A particular type of challenge is change.  Change is a constant, and unless it is well managed, change can be disruptive at best and detrimental at worst.  Another potentially vicious challenge is conflicts, which are intense disagreements over priorities, processes, or relationships.  

As a part of the workshop, we are planning four activities: using the templates provided, analyze a project to identify risks, issues, changes, and conflicts.
 

Benefits

To Participants:

• Acquire and apply tools for incorporating the impact of both anticipated and unanticipated risks into project schedules and communications.
• Learn and apply risk management strategies to focus energy on those things which are most likely to impact successful education; learn how not to focus on those which are less important!
• Learn and understand a conflict characterization model to help frame and approach disagreements of all kinds, improving the speed and productivity of conflict resolution.

To the University:

• Improve project success by equipping project managers with tools to anticipate and plan for risk, avoiding surprises and unexpected delays.
• Deploy an approach to risk identification which makes comparison and conversation across projects and departments easier.

Please visit the Project Management 101 Learning Series Canvas course to view additional resources.

Project Management 101 Learning Series Schedule