Category: Project Management
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Order out of chaos: Risk Breakdown Structure
There is a good number of techniques that can be used to identify risks. Some are techniques focused looking at past (every Tender Manager should be able to create a list of issues he had experienced in past projects), other tools are focused on the present (spending a few hours reviewing your current assumptions should…
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Risk metalanguage: how to make a proper Risk Register
One of the key deliverables in project risk management is the risk register. The idea is that after risk identification, qualitative and quantitative analysis, and planning of risk response the tender manger (or project manager) should end having a list with all the risk identified at that point in time. I assume that the content…
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Risk & contingencies – a brief introduction
One of the hot topics frequently discussed in the creation of the budget for big projects is the appropriate contingency level and how to estimate it. My colleague Giuseppe had found an interesting paper online that has been the starting point for this post. So, what are contingencies? Some far reaching definitions consider different typologies…
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Wind farm project management: PRICE2 vs PMP
In another post I have discussed my experience with the PMP certification and its (somehow weak) relationship with wind farm project management. In a nutshell, several processes and concepts are not directly applicable given the peculiarity of our industry. Said that, I believe that the PMP has a value, because it explain in detail a lot of…
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PMP methodology & wind farm project management
This week I had the pleasure to pass the PMP (Project Management Professional) exam – one of the two leading certifications for project managers, the other being PRINCE2 from the UK. The exam itself is notoriously not trivial: long (200 questions in 4 hours) and based on a book very hard to read, the Project…
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Wind farm construction steps: generic timeline infographic
One of the pleasures of fatherhood is the fact that you have quite a lot of extra times during the night – if your kids do not sleep. Yesterday night has been exceptionally short due to a son diving out of the bed and hitting his head and another who decided that at 6 AM…
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Where do I go from here? Careers path in the renewable industry.
This post is about my personal experience with possible careers path in the onshore wind industry – what are the easy and the not so easy movements. I believe that the main concepts would be applicable to similar industries, such as Solar or Offshore. It’s applicable to medium and big size companies organized in a…