The Risk Doctor has contributed chapters on risk to a number of other major books, and co-edited others. These include standards, guidelines and textbooks covering a range of subjects. Details are below.
The sixth edition of this practice-oriented handbook presents a comprehensive overview of current best practices in project management. It includes the most up-to-date thinking, describing recent developments in a way that practitioners can immediately use.
The team of expert contributors includes many of the most experienced and highly regarded international writers and practitioners. David Hillson was invited to write Chapter 16 “Managing project risk”, reflecting his position as a recognised thought-leader with wide practical expertise.
The Handbook of Project Management – Sixth Edition was edited by Martina Huemann and Rodney Turner, and published by Routledge in February 2024 (ISBN 9781032227634)
This major unique book spans academic and practitioner perspectives into the management of strategic portfolios. These are clearly risky endeavours for any organisation, especially those that make their business in projects, programs and portfolios. David Hillson contributed Chapter 17: Portfolio Risk Management, describing current best practice, adding his own unique approach and insights on this challenging topic.
Strategic Portfolio Management is edited by Dr Katy Angliss and Dr Pete Harpum, and published in December 2022 by Routledge (ISBN 9780367425036).
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“Strategic Project Management: Contemporary Issues and Strategies for Developing Economies”. 2015. Boca Raton, FL, USA: CRC Press. ISBN 9781482225129.
Edited by Corlane Barclay and Kweku-Muata Osei-Bryson, this wide-ranging book offers modern experiences, best practices and tools for individuals and teams working in projects spanning diverse environments in developing economies. It addresses the issues and challenges experienced in developing countries, and shows how effective project management practices can tackle them, with sustainable solutions.
Chapter 9 “Program risk management: Making strategy possible” was contributed by Dr Bruno Rafael Dias De Lucena, Prof Leonardo Lustosa, and Dr David Hillson, drawing on their wide experience of programs in Brazil and globally.
“AMA Handbook of Project Management” (fifth edition). 2018. New York, NY, US: American Management Association.
David Hillson’s chapter on “Risk management in practice” (Chapter 18) has been revised and updated to reflect the latest thinking in project risk management, presenting key advice on the principles, process and practice.
“Advances in Project Management: Narrated journeys in uncharted territory”. 2014. Farnham, Surrey, UK: Gower Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4724-2913-1
This book presents insights from authors of books in the two major Gower series on “Advances in PM” and “Fundamentals of PM”, edited by the series editor Professor Darren Dalcher. In Chapter 3 “Managing Risk in Projects: What’s New?”, David Hillson reviews the latest developments in the discipline, suggesting four areas where risks in projects can be managed differently and better.
Everyone knows that risk culture is important but no-one seems to be clear about what it is, where it comes from, what a good one looks like, or how to get one. As a result the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) launched a project in 2012 to gather current leading thinking and practice on this vital topic. Drawing together subject-matter experts from a range of risk disciplines, IRM produced a full report offering guidance to risk practitioners, as well as a shorter report providing advice to Boards. David Hillson was a core member of the IRM team, producing one of the central chapters in the main report and outlining the main underlying principles of culture on which the IRM risk culture model is based.
Both reports are available for free download from the IRM website.
"Advising Upwards", edited by Lynda Bourne. 2011. Farnham, UK: Gower Publishing. ISBN 978-0-566-09249-7.
This book considers how essential information reaches management decision-makers – or not. David Hillson was invited to write a chapter on “Enterprise Risk Management: Managing Uncertainty and Minimising Surprise” (Chapter 2), explaining how to escalate risk information up the organisation based on the dual need for attention and action.
"Prioritising Project Risks". 2008. Princes Risborough, UK: Association for Project Management. ISBN 978-1-903494-27-1
David Hillson co-edited this short guide which offers a wide range of useful techniques to the practitioner who needs to decide which are the most important risks. In addition, he contributed several specific techniques that he developed, drawing on his broad experience as a project risk specialist over many years.
"Interfacing Risk and Earned Value Management". 2008. High Wycombe, UK: Association for Project Management. ISBN 978-1-903494-24-0
This short guide explains how two established project control techniques can complement each other and improve the information available to management decision-makers. As a recognised risk expert who also has direct experience of using earned-value management on his projects, David Hillson contributed significantly to this guide, particularly focusing on how to reflect upside risk (opportunity) in management reserve and contingency.