September 2013
Beginner
400 pages
10h 14m
English
book
Project Risk Management: Essential Methods for Project Teams and Decision Makers
by Yuri Raydugin
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Index
A
ALARP
assessment methods
‘cargo cult’. See also distance to reality
deterministic qualitative
deterministic quantitative
cost escalation modeling
critical path analysis (CPA)
exchange rate modeling
PERT analysis
questionnaire-based
distance to reality
probabilistic qualitative
probabilistic quantitative. See also Monte Carlo method
burn rates
cost risk analysis
integrated cost and schedule risk analysis
schedule-driven costs
schedule risk analysis
B
baseline
base estimate
base period currency
fixed costs
variable costs
confidence level of
proxy
‘class 4.5’ estimate
‘level 1.5’ schedule
schedule
benchmarking
bias
organizational
psychological
anchoring
cognitive
conscious
double-dipping
hidden agenda
overconfidence
perceptual
red herring
subconscious
window-dressing
bowtie diagram
Brezhnev, Leonid
broiler black swan
brownfield project
Buffet, Warren
C
central limit theorem (CLT)
change management
Churchill, Winston
CO2 sequestration
CO2-EOR
contracting strategy
procurement baseline
request for proposal (RFP)
risk brokering
type of contract
lump sum
reimbursable
unit price
cost escalation
cash flow forecast
composite index
weight coefficient
consumer price index (CPI)
consumer basket
general inflation
inflation
currency exchange rate
interest rates
Global Insight
market imbalances
trade balance
D
dancing
Cossacks of
Gangnam style
Morris
‘ritual’. See also ‘cargo cult’
decision making
informed risk-based
decision tree analysis
with chance events
with controlled options
Delphi ...
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