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The Benefits of Risk Assessment for Projects, Portfolios, and Businesses

Assessing risk at the project, portfolio, and business levels helps understand risk, make better decisions, negotiate fair contracts, create risk mitigation scenarios, and improve teamwork. This white paper shows how risk assessments lead to accurate plans that are less likely to lead to budget overruns or delays. Primavera Risk Analysis...

Tags: Risk Assessment, Contingency, Benefit, Primavera Risk Analysis, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Security, Management

White papers 2009-06-01

Using Relationship Diagrams to Enhance the Critical Path Method of Project Scheduling

This white paper provides an overview of the Critical Path Method CPM for project scheduling and the history of its development. The implementation of the Relationship Diagramming Method RDM variant of CPM within Oracle's Primavera Risk Analysis (Release 8.2 or later) is illustrated, and the benefits of such an approach...

Tags: Critical Path, Oracle Corp., Primavera Risk Analysis, Strategy, Management

White papers 2009-06-01

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Assessing Bid Viability With Primavera Risk Analysis

Before drafting and presenting a bid, a company must evaluate the revenue potential of the project, the type of contract to enter into, and its own capacity for executing the project. Each of these areas is heavily impacted by uncertainty. To create the best-possible bid, companies use Primavera Risk Analysis,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., Bid, Financial Planning, Roi/Tco, Strategy, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management

White papers 2009-06-01

Successfully Managing Contract Risk by Forming Win-Win Relationships

This white paper identifies some of the risks involved with contract project work and explains how a formal risk assessment can help alleviate those risks. As a result of risk analysis, strong collaborative relationships can be formed with contractors, and projects can be completed on time and on budget. Oracle's...

Tags: Risk, Oracle Corp., Analytics, Risk Analysis, Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis, Strategy, Financial Planning, Security, Management, Finance

White papers 2009-06-01

Downer EDI Engineering Completes Jobs Up to 25% Faster With Project Management Solution

Founded in 1933, Downer EDI Engineering is one of Australia's largest providers of engineering and infrastructure services. Downer EDI Engineering has been using scheduling software applications to manage schedules since the 1990s. Scheduling software packages did not provide the company with the accuracy and reporting capabilities that they needed for...

Tags: Job, Oracle Corp., Oracle Primavera, Downer EDI Ltd., Downer EDI Engineering, Tools & Techniques, Project Management, Service Management, Management, It Operations, It service Management

Case studies 2009-06-01

More Realistic Estimating: Separating Risks and Opportunities From Uncertainty

In this white paper, an example is used to illustrate the benefits of using the risk register in Oracle's Primavera Risk Analysis. These benefits include improved understanding, planning, communication, negotiation, and risk mitigation and management. This paper also shows how using a risk register can eliminate undue pessimism in scheduling...

Tags: Register, Oracle Corp., Benefits, Strategy, Human Resources, Management

White papers 2009-03-01