Modelling Project Risks

Contact information

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In-house delivery

UNSW Canberra Professional Education Courses may be available for in-house delivery at your organisation's premises. In-house courses allow maximum attendance without the additional travel costs. Courses can be developed to suit the specific staff development and training needs of your organisation. Recommended for groups of 10 or more.

Projects always involve uncertainties and understanding these uncertainties is crucial for developing adequate plan, which is required for effective project monitoring and control, and informed decision-making. Effective modelling techniques, which capture the complexities of projects and uncertainties involved, are therefore necessary for adequate project management. This course looks at those issues, describes existing models to deal with those issues and then discusses their merits and possible synthesis.

This course aims to provide an understanding of the processes, methods, and techniques used to model the project risks in particular schedule (time) and cost risks. Depending on where in the project life-cycle you apply it, this can help in advising senior management about project strategies and risks when applied in feasibility or requirement phase throughout project closure.

What you will receive

Comprehensive course notes and exercises
UNSW Canberra certificate of completion/attendance*
Morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea
Masters credit: UNSW Canberra allows students who have successfully completed a minimum of 12 days of approved professional education short courses to use those courses as credit in eligible postgraduate programs.

*pending final results

Who should attend

Anyone requiring an understanding of project management, including, but not exclusive to:

Project and program managers
Risk analyst & Risk managers
Aspiring project managers
Sustainment and acquisition project managers
Schedule & Cost analysts
Systems engineers
Technical staff
Logistic managers
Capability development staff
ILS managers
Capability managers
Contract/Procurement managers
Engineers
Engineering managers
Business managers
Procurement officers
Infrastructure Planners

Presenter

Dr Alireza Abbasi is Director of Postgraduate Studies and Coordinator of Project Management programs in the University of New South Wales (UNSW) at Canberra. He obtained his PhD in Project Management from the University of Sydney in 2012 before joining the School of Engineering and Information Technology (SEIT) at UNSW Canberra. He also holds a graduate certificate in University Learning and Teaching from UNSW Sydney. His research and teaching interests include project management, management science, information systems management and network science. He has written a book, three book chapters and over 60 technical journal and conference papers.

Dr Abbasi has had several appointments and been involved in different projects in IT/Software, Oil, Education and R&D sectors. He is an active member of several professional bodies including Australian Institute of Project Management (AIPM), Project Management Institute (PMI), and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM).

Course Information

Course outline

Projects and Project Management

Discussing what is a project and what are project objectives
Reviewing basic project management concepts
Reviewing briefly Capability Life-Cycle (CLC)

Project Risk Management

Main general framework for project risk management such as PMBOK or ISO standards 31000
Reviewing concepts, strategy, and risk mitigation and requirements setting in CLC

Modelling

What is a model?
How do we model?
Modelling in practice

Uncertainty and Risk

Uncertainty and risk in projects
Cost risk
Time risk
Analysing risk using simulation
Monte Carlo Simulation

Exercises

The course will cover several exercises on modelling and conducting Monte Carlo simulation reinforcing the concepts discussed in the course.

Affiliated courses

Introduction to Project Management (3 days)

Project Schedule and Budget Control (3 days)

Cancellation policy

Courses will be held subject to sufficient registrations. UNSW Canberra reserves the right to cancel a course up to five working days prior to commencement of the course. If a course is cancelled, you will have the opportunity to transfer your registration or be issued a full refund. If registrant cancels within 10 days of course commencement, a 50% registration fee will apply. UNSW Canberra is a registered ACT provider under ESOS Act 2000-CRICOS provider Code 00098G.