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

• Main Author: Caron, Franco (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Project management.; Statistics.; Quality control.; Reliability.; Industrial safety.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Project Management.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

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 lear...

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.