Technical Papers
Strategic Project Planning versus Project Failure
Massimoluigi Casinelli, CCP
The Project’s Owner must play a different role, by leading the strategic project planning to setup and implement the most suitable project management system in order to guarantee the success of the capital investment project.
Incorporating Risk Assessment into Project Forecasting
Dione Palomino Conde Laratta, PMP
The science of project management was founded, in large part, to manage risk and prevent it from negatively affecting project objectives, schedules, and budgets.
Risk in any project is unavoidable....
Risk in any project is unavoidable....
Schedule Levels - Major Projects
Mosaic Projects
This is a major milestone type of schedule; usually only one page, it highlights major project activities, milestones, and key deliverables for th e whole project. It is used to summarise the project schedule in reports and ....
Schedule Risk Analysis; Are You Ready For It?
Tom Olden BMT Hi-Q Sigma
This paper raises concerns that the application of schedule risk analysis (SRA) may sometimes be merely a means to an end rather than as an aid to allow projects to make well founded decisions. The paper is not looking to describe the SRA process, or to detail the benefits of SRA. Instead the paper seeks to outline key questions a project manager should ask themselves about their project and organisation before undertaking an SRA.
Oil and Gas Industry Megaprojects: Our Recent Track Record.
Edward Merrow IPA Founder and CEO. SPE Oil and Gas Facilities. April 2012.In a recent major study of industrial megaprojects, the author finds that oil and gas industry megaprojects fared very poorly. Earlier studies showed that the results of oil and gas megaprojects were quite similar to the results from megaprojects in other industrial sectors. With this much larger and more recent set of megaprojects, we find that upstream megaprojects are more fragile than their nonoil and gas industry cousins. The author attributes this finding to the poor functional integration that characterizes upstream project organizations, which makes these complex projects much more sensitive to poor preparation, schedule aggressiveness, and loss of continuity in project leadership.
White Papers and Presentations
White Papers
Project Management Maturity – Using Software To Setup Project Management Processes
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