Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects

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Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects

The brief will describe how to develop a risk analysis applied to a project , through a sequence of steps: risk management planning, risk identification, risk classification, risk assessment, risk quantification, risk response planning, risk monitoring and control, process close out and lessons learning. The project risk analysis and management process will be applied to large engineering projects, in particular related to the oil and gas industry. The brief will address the overall range of possible events affecting the project moving from certainty (project issues) through uncertainty (project risks) to unpredictability (unforeseeable events), considering both negative and positive events. Some quantitative techniques (simulation, event tree, Bayesian inference, etc.) will be used to develop risk quantification. The brief addresses a typical subject in the area of project management, with reference to large engineering projects concerning the realization of large plants and infrastructures. These projects are characterized by a high level of change, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. The brief represents an extension of the material developed for the course Project Risk Analysis and Management of the Master in Strategic Project Management (Erasmus Mundus) developed jointly by Politecnico di Milano, Heriot Watt University (Edimburgh) and Umea (Sweden). The brief may be used both in courses addressing project management subjects and by practitioners as a guide for developing an effective project risk management plan.

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English
Pages
88

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Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects
2013, Springer Milan, Imprint: Springer
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Large Engineering Projects Strategy
Large Engineering Projects - the Oil and Gas Case
Project Management
Improving the Forecasting Process in Project Control
Robustness and Flexibility
Project Risk Analysis and Management
Real Options
Stakeholders as Uncertainty Sources
Project Organizational Model
Introduction to Project Risk
Project Risk Analysis
Project Risk Management
Quantitative Analysis of Project Risks
Conclusions.

Edition Notes

Published in
Milano
Series
SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
658.56
Library of Congress
TA169.7, T55-T55.3, TA403.6, TA1-2040

The Physical Object

Format
[electronic resource] /
Pagination
VIII, 88 p. 13 illus.
Number of pages
88

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27072490M
ISBN 13
9788847052444

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL19885454W

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