Martin Hopkinson
United Kingdom
Martin Hopkinson is the Director of Risk Management Capability Limited and has 30 years’ experience as a project manager, project risk management specialist and consultant. His experience has been gained across a wide variety of industries and engineering disciplines and includes multi-billion pound projects and programmes.
Martin’s first book, The Project Risk Maturity Model, concerns the risk management process. His contributions to Association for Project Management (APM) guides such as Directing Change and Sponsoring Change reflect his belief in the importance of project governance and business case development.
In his most recent book Net Present Value and Risk Modelling for Projects he brings these subjects together by showing how NPV and risk modelling techniques can be used to optimise projects and support project approval decisions. (To learn more about the book, click here.)
Articles and Papers
- Project Strategy Risks: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - September 2024
- Impact and Probability Estimating: A brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - August 2024
- Risk Management Plans: A brief guide - Series Articles - Hopkinson - July 2024
- Effects of Heuristics on Risk Estimates: A brief guide - Series Articles - Hopkinson - June 2024
- Risk in the Earlier Project Phases: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - May 2024
- Project Risk Management Culture: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - April 2024
- Assessing Risk Management Capability: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - March 2024
- Benefits of Project Risk Management: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - February 2024
- Hints and Tips for Project Risk Managers: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - January 2024
- Cost & NPV Risk Analysis Tornado Charts: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - December 2023
- Net Present Value Risk Modelling: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - November 2023
- Risk to Project Benefits: A brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - October 2023
- A Process for Developing Schedule Risk Models: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - July 2023
- On the Subject of AI, ChatGPT and Risk - Letter to the Editor - Hopkinson - June 2023
- Schedule Risk Analysis Prioritization Results: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - June 2023
- Schedule Risk Analysis: a brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - May 2023
- Risk Registers: A brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - April 2023
- Risk Classification Criteria Tables: a brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - March 2023
- Probability-Impact Matrices: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - February 2023
- Variability Risks and Event Risks: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - January 2023
- Three-scenario Estimates: A brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - December 2022
- Three-point Estimates: a brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - November 2022
- Multiplicative Risk Effects: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - October 2022
- Pre and Post Risk Mitigation Estimates: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - September 2022
- Identifying High-Risk Projects: A brief guide - Series Article - Hopkinson - August 2022
- Source-orientated Parent-Child Risk Breakdown: A brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Articles - Hopkinson - July 2022
- The Lack of Project-related Experience Amongst Government Ministers - Commentary - Hopkinson - June 2022
- Top-down Multicycle Risk Management Process: A brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - June 2022
- Risk Ownership: a brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - May 2022
- Risk Descriptions: A brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - April 2022
- On the Subject of Brief Risk Management Guides - Letter to the Editor - Hopkinson - March 2022
- Risk Identification: A brief guide (Practical Project Risk Management) - Series Article - Hopkinson - March 2022
- The Threat-Opportunity Risk Matrix Paradox – should we continue to use common-practice risk analysis methods? - Featured Paper - Hopkinson - February 2021
- High Speed Rail: HS2 – A Project Business Case in Crisis - Featured Paper - Hopkinson - December 2020
- The Brexit Project: The Need for a Project-Based Approach - Commentaries - Hopkinson - August 2016
- The Case for Project Net Present Value (NPV) and NPV Risk Models - Series Articles - Hopkinson - June 2016