Preface

This freely available eBook focuses on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), 7th edition, by the Project Management Institute (PMI), USA to provide comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of project quality management and risk management. It makes breakthroughs in project quality by combining risk project management with quality management processes. This eBook provides a short summary of current best practices in project risk management while introducing the connection and relevance of quality project management, so that practitioners, students and those responsible for managing risk and quality in projects may do so successfully.

Projects are inevitably risky by nature, and contemporary approaches to project management acknowledge that risk management and quality management are both inherent aspects of the project management discipline. Risk assessment and quality project management in projects presents management processes in their appropriate perspectives in the world of project management and beyond, and emphasises the essential principles necessary to comprehend why and how risk and the right quality management approach should be applied to all projects of all sizes, in all sectors, and in all nations.