Project Management: A Risk Management Approach

Ted Klastorin is the Burlington Resources/Burlington Northern Professor in the ISOM
Department at the Foster School of Business at the University of Washington in Seattle,
Washington, and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Systems and Industrial
Engineering in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. He has worked in
the project management area for more than 40 years; he was part of the team that initially developed
MS Project for Microsoft and has worked with many profit and nonprofit organizations
on project management-related issues. Professor Klastorin has published widely in the project
management area; his current research focuses on the design of optimal contracts in decentralized
projects and new systems for evaluating and monitoring ongoing projects. He holds a
BS degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin.

Gary Mitchell holds a distinguished professorship in the Robert B. Pamplin Jr. School of
Business Administration at the University of Portland and has worked in and taught project
management for more than 35 years. He was a successful project manager who managed IT
package implementation, custom development, packaged software development, business profit
improvement, and business reengineering projects. Professor Mitchell also managed projects
involving distribution center and warehouse design, construction, and operational setup projects.
His current research focuses on managing the impact of uncertainty in projects and supply
chains, and new approaches for evaluating and monitoring ongoing projects. He holds a BA
degree in psychology and studio art, an MBA in finance from the University of California at
Riverside, and a PhD in operations management from the University of Washington.