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Managing Risk in Primavera Risk Analysis

Course Cost £1500 +VAT
Duration 3 DAYS
  • Course focuses on Primavera's Risk Management solution.
  • Gain grounding in project risk management concepts.
  • Learn to assess risks, run analysis, propose mitigation.
  • Apply risk assessment to project schedule, resources, costs.
  • Improve project management, set targets, contingencies.

Overview

This three-day Primavera Risk Analysis Training course focuses on teaching project risk management concepts and techniques. Participants will learn to assess risks, run a risk analysis, propose mitigation, and track mitigation progress. The course aims to improve project management by setting targets, contingencies, and managing corporate and customer expectations. Topics covered include risk analysis theory, methodology, schedule review, and cost uncertainty. The course is suitable for Risk Analysts, Project Managers, Planners, and Business Analysts with basic project planning knowledge.

Who should attend

Risk Analyst, Project Manager, Planner, Scheduler, Business Analysts, End Users, Functional Implementer

Primavera Risk Analysis Training

Course Summary:

This course provides training for Primavera’s Risk Management solution (previously known as PertMaster). This three-day class leads you through examples of specific risk modelling techniques and provides a lab-style workshop on the third day to allow students to apply the learned techniques.

Delegates will gain a thorough grounding in the concepts of project risk management and will learn how to apply a risk assessment to a project schedule, resources and costs, interpret, communicate and justify a risk analysis to the project team, management and stakeholders and use risk management to  improve project management, set targets and contingencies and set corporate and customer expectations.

Learn to:

• Use a Risk Register to assess risks qualitatively or quantitatively
• Run a risk analysis
• Use a Risk Register to propose, evaluate and justify mitigation
• Track planned mitigation with rest of the project

Course Objectives:

• Apply a risk assessment to a project schedule, resources and costs
• Interpret, communicate and justify a risk analysis to the project team, management and stakeholders
• Use risk management to improve your project management, set targets and contingency, set corporate and customer expectations apply correlation

Course Topics:

• Basic schedule and cost risk analysis theory
• Risk Methodology
• Schedule Review
• Using three-point estimates for activities
• Running a quantitative risk analysis
• Understanding results (histograms, tornado charts
• Understanding project drivers (duration sensitivity, criticality)
• Introduction to the Risk Register
• Integration with Primavera and Microsoft Project
• Cost & Resource Uncertainty
• Risk assessment templating
• Correlation
• Probabilistic Branching
• Risk Register (Risk Events)
• Response Planning – cost/benefit analysis
• Lab style workshop
• Applying risk analysis techniques

Release:8.6

Course Audience:

Risk Analysts, Project Manager, Planner, Scheduler, Business Analysts, End
Users, Functional Implementer

Prerequisite(s):

Project planning/management fundamentals (desirable)knowledge of Windows™

Primavera Risk Analysis Training Scotland, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Perth and Inverness and other sites throughout the UK including onsite closed company courses are available.

Primavera Risk Analysis Training Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, India, Ghana and Nigeria is also available.

Experts in Construction and Infrastructure Training

1000+

Training courses available

250000+

Course hours completed

50+

Expert trainers

CITB, APS, IEMA

Accreditation training centres

12

Accreditations

Testimonials

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The course was exceptional, well run in terms of delivery of information, IT online course but seamless. Very interesting examples of temporary works failures applicable to the businesses we worked in. Break out activities / group examples worked very well and were again well managed by the trainer. Fantastic course, I will recommend to others! Best course I have attended in years!

CITB Temporary Works Co-Ordinator

Black & Veatch

The trainers knowledge was excellent and I liked his examples and how he could relate them to every day relatable examples that we could all understand. Coming from different industries and sectors his examples were a common ground. It was handled very well virtually and the engagement worked with his questioning and answering

Contract Management

The Pension Regulator

The training was very interactive and the tutor was excellent in engaging every course attendee and ensuring that the course content was tailored to each attendees Organisation and Company requirements

CITB Temporary Works Awareness

Kone – H &S Advisor

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