PMI-RMP case studies
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The PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® is one of PMI's specialized certifications, positioned alongside credentials such as the PMP®, CAPM®, and PMI-ACP® in PMI's certification catalogue. PMI's own description of the credential is that it lets a practitioner "demonstrate your skills to spot threats early, master risk management, and lead projects to success" - framing it as a specialist credential rather than a general project management one. The PMI-RMP case studies are 5 cases and about 5,012 words.
1The 8% Contingency Mandate on a First-of-Kind Integration
A mid-size engineering firm's PMO mandates that every project hold contingency equal to 8% of the approved budget, set at gate approval and released only with PMO sign-off. You are the risk manager on a 14-month systems-integration project - the firm's first deployment of a new vendor platform - with four external interfaces, two of which are owned by a client whose requirements are still being baselined.
971 words, about 5 min2A Risk Register That Maps the Meeting, Not the Risk
A regional utility is replacing its billing system. The risk register has 96 entries: 61 were contributed by the IT workstream, 4 by Finance, none by the contact-centre operations manager who will absorb the largest process change, and none by the works council, whose consultation is legally required before any role changes.
958 words, about 5 min3Fifty-Eight Risks, One Workshop, and No Causes
You join a data-centre migration at week 6 of a 30-week schedule. The risk register has 58 entries, most phrased as 'vendor may not deliver on time', 'scope creep', 'resource availability'.
973 words, about 5 min4Ranking by Expected Monetary Value on a Correlated Register
Two risks dominate a construction-phase register. Risk A: a 12% probability of a three-week delay to the commissioning sequence, with a cost impact of about 2.1M if it occurs.
1,072 words, about 5 min5A Risk Report That Has Not Moved in Eight Months
Eight months into a 24-month regulatory-compliance programme, the monthly risk report to the steering committee still shows the same twelve top risks in the same order as month one, with nine flagged green. You discover: the risk owner for the two most material risks changed jobs six weeks ago and nobody reassigned ownership; two agreed response actions (a legal review and a vendor security attestation) were scheduled for month 5 and have never been started; the probability fields were last edited in month 2; and one risk marked green has had its defined trigger condition met twice, with no recorded action.
1,038 words, about 5 min