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Tag Archives: project risk

The Art of Recovery

November 27, 2015

Projects do run into difficulties from time-to-time, that’s the nature of projects and you shouldn’t be surprised. Indeed, as Elmar Kutsch, Mark Hall and Neil Turner illustrate in their great new book Project Resilience, you may not be able to predict a crisis but you can very likely predict how people will respond.

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Hobby Horse Specifications, Excluded Parties and Lack of Sign Off … What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

November 13, 2015

It is within your control to ensure any document going out from the Government side of the process is well-structured and internally consistent. Insist on it. It is regrettably common to see a specification document which has been prepared by lumping together the inputs from a variety of subject matter experts without any technical challenge or editorial input.

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How should you tell an organization they have won (or lost) the tender for a mega-project?

November 4, 2015

There are definitely ways of doing things right (and wrong) in major projects. And communication during the bid process is very much one of those ways. Louise Hart offers a bullet-proof process for communicating the results in her new book Procuring Successful Mega-Projects.

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When is Monte Carlo definitely NOT the answer?

October 9, 2015

Despite its very general philosophy, there are some cases where Monte Carlo does not work. This can be the case when the sampling process does not adequately look into the feature which the output requires. Two examples come to mind.

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Too much risk management, too little risk management or just right?

November 23, 2012

David Hillson makes some very sensible observations in his article in the November issue of PM World Journal: One Size …

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PM World is back with a bang!

August 18, 2012

I am delighted to say that the virtual journal, PMWorld is back after a month or two’s absence while the …

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PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award for the Risk Doctor

November 11, 2011

I am delighted to be able to tell you that David Hillson, a.k.a The Risk Doctor was awarded the PMI …

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New World, New Project Management

July 20, 2011

Following the APM Project Management Conference 2010 Delivering the Future in Partnership, the APM Project Management Conference 2011 aims to …

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Free Risk Doctor webcast in July – Book now

July 11, 2011

 David Hillson (www.risk-doctor.com) will be presenting at the “Making Risk Work” Summit, hosted by Penny Pullan and Ruth Murray-Webster in the …

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When is a project not a project?

May 17, 2011

The trouble with definitions in the world of project management (and the PMBOK definitions are no exception) is what do …

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