Dispute resolution

Possibly worth adressing substantially in this article as a core issue towards reducing the likelyhood of disputes arising is what would be at the source of the factors listed in the article existing in the first place as significant concerns to address. The list mentions "Properly assessing risks" while it should possibly actually say "Properly managing risks". At the source of most disputes features prominently project sponsors and/or participants to manage project risks primarily by transfer to others and by systematic converstion of the nature of risks into financial terms. Unintelligent/unreasonable risk transfers (downloading the responsibility to manage risks to entities that can not materially nor be reeasonably expeected to exercize the level of control and authority commensurate to the nature and/or importance of any given risk) is often the direct reason why the means to reduce disputes listed in the article fail to be implemented or even provided for. Managing risks by essentially evacuating them by transfer is a fundamentally delusional strategy. Transferring risks mostly produces downstream risk transfer chains, certain to fail at the weakest link. In fact, wholesale transfer of project risks merely creates a new risk, often cruelly underestimated in terms of probability and impact if at all actually assessed : failure of the risk transfer strategy. Failures in risk transfer strategy (including where everything is converteed into financial compensaiton) always occur after harm has been done to the project and damages incurred and, predictably, disputes having been triggered.

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