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Project Risk Analysis

Techniques for Forecasting Funding Requirements, Costs and Timescales

By: Mr Derek Salkeld

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Project Risk Analysis

Techniques for Forecasting Funding Requirements, Costs and Timescales

By: Mr Derek Salkeld

Projects overspend and overrun. Business cases perform less well than expected. Managers tighten their grip and initiate more procedure. But little changes and the scenario repeats, and it has done so for decades. Losing other peoples' money and goodwill is almost an innate characteristic of projects. This may be a norm but it need not be the natural state of affairs. In Project Risk Analysis, Derek Salkeld shows how easily assimilated techniques developed out of formal risk analysis methods can be used to increase the chances of projects being delivered to the oft quoted objective of on time and to budget, to quality and to popular acceptance. These techniques need to be understood by managers so that they can foresee the benefits of directing their teams to carry them out, and so they can inform their clients about the potential consequences of the investments they wish to make and how the project team plan to assure these. The three parts of the book explain how you can: • calculate the funding required for a simple, short project using risk based methods to generate answers that are more accurate than traditional estimating • apply the techniques to inform an investment decision for a major project, taking into account whole of life costs, operations and revenues • design and implement specific management controls that will assure the outcomes of the investment decisions. Risk and opportunity are inherent in projects and yet, whilst many organizations invest heavily in project management methodologies and processes, few project sponsors, project board members or managers understand the effect these might have. The approach taken in the book is to understand how the risk and opportunity in a project will affect its funding requirements and its business case outcomes, and to use this understanding to devise management controls that will benefit both the investor and the project manager. This is essential reading for anyone concerned with adding value to projects, programmes and the organizations for which they are delivering them.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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140947237X

ISBN 13

9781409472377

Project Resilience

The Art of Noticing, Interpreting, Preparing, Containing and Recovering

By: Mr Elmar Kutsch,Dr Mark Hall,Dr Neil Turner

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Project Resilience

The Art of Noticing, Interpreting, Preparing, Containing and Recovering

By: Mr Elmar Kutsch,Dr Mark Hall,Dr Neil Turner

As the title suggests, Project Resilience is about making projects and project managers more resilient. It offers a glimpse into our tendencies to be irrational in the face of adversity: risk, uncertainty and complexity. The second purpose is to offer a new perspective to aid in managing risky, and in particular uncertain and complex projects. The authors go beyond commonly-accepted standards in project management with the aim of providing an understanding of how to implement project-wide resilience. The purpose is to guide, not to prescribe. It is best used as a trigger for a thinking process to define your own unique approach to managing uncertainty, not to replace your experience and judgement. Ultimately, it has been written to challenge traditional wisdom in project management, and to address the rationale for creative best practices.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472423631

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9781472423634

The Rules of Project Risk Management

Implementation Guidelines for Major Projects

By: Mr Robert Chapman

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The Rules of Project Risk Management

Implementation Guidelines for Major Projects

By: Mr Robert Chapman

The discipline of project risk management is continually evolving and has matured over time. However within the literature there has been a disproportionate focus on process, techniques and statistical analysis at the expense of understanding how effective risk management is delivered. The Rules of Project Risk Management provides readers with practical insights in the form of guidelines or ‘rules’ to enhance effective delivery of a discipline which has been proven to directly contribute to securing a project’s objectives. A series of mini case studies are included to improve comprehension of the guidelines. The structure of the book has been designed to enable project and risk personnel and students alike to quickly appreciate and assimilate those aspects of risk management that warrant close scrutiny and comprehension. Robert Chapman’s advice is given with clarity and is based on very broad experience.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472411951

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