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Project Set Up

Risk management and assumptionsProject Governance

Project Charters

““Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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THE PROJECT SET UP PHASE

GET ON WITH IT?We have the proposal, we have the money… why not start ? What are risks with this?

"It’s impossible that the improbable will never happen." Emil Gumbel (Il est impossible que l’improbable n’arrive jamais, in Statistics of Extremes, 1958.)

RISK MANAGEMENTWhat risks face your projects?

"All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively”. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

QUANTIFIABLE RISK REGISTERRisk Description Impact

/10Probability

/10Total/100

Owner Action

Project delayed if recruitments not completed on time

6 5 30 JC

Extra resources – more resources needed if latrine use not accepted and delays

5 4 20 MC

Major delay and possible cancellation if conflict occurs around elections

9 3 27 EB

"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool." Richard P. Feynman, Nobel Prize–winning physicist

RESPONSES TO RISKS

"The most important questions of life are indeed, for the most part, really only problems of probability." Pierre-Simon Laplace (Théorie Analytique des Probabilités: 1812)

Avoidance Transference Mitigation Acceptance

RISK: WHO IS INTERESTED?Who would you share your risk registers and analysis with?

“No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra.” — H.E. Luccock

Questions?

Risk is like fire: If controlled it will help you; if uncontrolled it will rise up and destroy you.” – Theodore Roosevelt

Governance Structures

Project Board Project Sponsor

Project Sponsor

SeniorSupplier

SeniorUser

Project Executive

BOARDS Vs. SPONSORS

Project Boards Project Sponsors

“Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.“-  Moliere

PROJECT GOVERNANCEWhat structures do you have for sharing project information with stakeholders?

Questions?

“I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch

course.” — Luke Johnson

PROJECT CHARTERS

• Project Purpose • Project Deliverables• High-level Project Estimates• Project Risks• Project Tolerances• Project Change Control

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” George

Bernard Shaw

TOLERANCE

Project Manager Authority

Project Board/Sponsor

Authority

Questions?

“Know when to cut your losses if necessary. Don’t let your desire to succeed be the enemy of good judgment. If Napoleon had left Moscow immediately, he may have returned with a salvageable army.”

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