Project risk refers to the risk that may lead to project lossesUncertainty, USAproject managementMaster Max Wydman defined it as an event occurring toProject objectivesAdversely affectedpossibility。
project risk management To best achieve the project objectives, identify, allocate and respondProject life cycleThe science and art of internal risk is a comprehensive management activity.
Project risk managementIs a dynamicworking processIn this process, various operations of project risks are carried out and carried out in an overlapping way.Project risk identification is an important part of project risk management.If you cannot accurately identify all potential risks faced by the project, you will lose the best opportunity to deal with these risks.
project risk management It refers to the management of a series of uncertain factors affecting the process, efficiency, benefits, objectives, etc. of the project during the whole process of the project, including externalenvironmental factorAnd internal factors, including subjective and objective factorsRational factorAnd the management of perceptual factors.The connotation of project risk management is reflected in the following three aspects:
onewholeProcess management。Project risk management is neither a simple listing and prior judgment of the uncertain factors affecting the project before the implementation of the project, nor a rigid and prescriptive project risk management countermeasure based on it;It is not in the process of the project when the actual project risk occursCrisis managementAnd countermeasures;It is not purely the remedy after the occurrence of project risksconceptual designAnd afterwardssummarize experienceIt is the management of the whole process of project risk.Full process management of project risk, requirementsproject risk management Those who are able to assess the situation and take a long-term view can achieve early warning and pre control of project risks through effective risk identification;The project manager is required to be able to face the crisis calmly and calmly through effective risksmanagement toolOr riskprocessing method, disperse, apportion or divide the risks generated during the project operation;The project risk manager is required to take effective response measures after the project risk occurs, and be able to summarize experience and lessons;Improve project risk management.
twoAll staff management。The overall management of project risk is not only the management of all participants or personnel involved in the project operation, but also requires that all personnel can participate in the management of project risk.Project risk management is absolutely not the business of project risk management functional departments.Project management risk not only includes the risk ofUncertaintyThe management of factors also includes the management of uncertain factors generated in the process of planning, organization and coordination of the project itself.For the latter, the artificial subjective influence is relatively large.project risk management It is not only the management of all participants (personnel) of the project, but also the management of project risks by all staff.
threeAll factor integrated management。From the realistic goal pursued by project risk management or the fundamental problem to be solved by project risk management, it mainly involves three aspects of project duration, cost and quality.It can be seen that the process of project risk management is to pursue the shortest project duration, the lowest cost and the best quality under possible conditionsMultiobjective decisionProcess, and project risk management cannot be satisfied with the pursuit of a single goal.This is because the duration, cost and quality of the project are threeDirect connectionAnd the relevant elements of interaction.The advance or delay of the project duration will directly affect the level of the cost, the quality of the project and the projectengineering costIt is directly related. Similarly, the fluctuation of project duration and quality is affected by cost factors.It is not difficult to see that,project risk management It is the whole element of construction period, cost and qualityIntegrated management。
In general, successful project risk management is both an art and a science.Its importance is mainly reflected in the following two aspects: on the one hand, project risk management helps to determineProject scopeAnd the best project.Project risk management can carry out risk characteristics of selectable project setsComprehensive evaluation, such as for project risk characteristicscluster analysis , making the projectorganizerCan be used in differentcritical valueSelect project groups within the scope;For projectsrisk premiumOfEffectivenessEvaluation enables project organizers to consciously select projectsInput and outputHigh efficiency projects, etc.Project risk management focuses on the periodicityRegularity, pre control and other aspects, the identification mechanism, dispersion mechanism, allocation mechanismTransfer mechanismAnd so on, so as toProject SelectionSelect the best project within the range.on the other hand,project risk management It helps to improve the efficiency and efficiency of the selected projects.Project risk management is a dynamic, repeated, timely correctionContinuous improvementTherefore, when risks appear with the advancement of the project, project risk management can constantly track the trajectory of risk affecting the project operation, and correct the deviation through effective procedures or means.For example, risk signs or signals can be effectively identified through risk identification strategies to prevent problems before they occur;developRisk diversificationMechanism, for multiple risk projectscoordination control , make full use of inter projectsynergistic effect;applicationRisk allocationStrategy, among the project partners, throughresource sharing, factor complementation and other ways to effectively share risks;Use the risk transfer mechanism to exit the project operation by means of transfer, sale, etc. when necessaryTransfer risk。In addition, the risks and benefits of the project are positively correlated to a certain extent, but the project risks also correspond to the possible losses or increased costs of the project.project risk management While improving the selected project, it also reduces the cost loss or uncertainty, which is equal to improving the efficiency and efficiency of project operation.
Project risk identification
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Project risk identificationIt refers to finding out the main factors that affect the smooth realization of project objectivesrisk factor And identify the basic characteristics of these risks and the aspects that may affect the project.
projectRisk identificationIt runs through the whole process of project implementationproject risk management Work.It's not oncea sexual behavior, and should run through the whole project regularly.Risk identification includes identification of internal and external risks.Internal risk refers to the risk that the project working group can control and influence, such as personnel appointment, dismissal andCost estimatesEtc.External risks refer to those beyond the control of the project team andeffectOther risks, such as market diversion orGovernment actionEtc.Strictly speaking, risk only refers to the possibility of suffering trauma and loss, but for projects, risk identification also involves opportunity selection (positive cost) and adverse factor threat (negative result).Any potentialProblem identificationOfinformation sourceBoth can be used for risk identification. There are subjective and objective information sources.Objective information sources include experiences recorded in past projects and documents representing the current project progress, such as engineering documents, plan analysisrequirement analysis, Technologyperformance evaluationEtc;Subjective information sources are based on experienced expertsEmpirical judgement。
Identify potential risks and their characteristics in the project
This is the first goal of project risk identification.The nature and consequences of these projects can be further analyzed only after determining what risks may be encountered first.Therefore, in the project risk identification work, the first step is toComprehensive analysisVarious projectsinfluence factor, find out various possible risks, and sort out and summarize them into a list of project risks.
Identify the main sources of risk
Only by identifying the main influencing factors of each project risk can we grasp the law of project risk development and changemeasureThe possibility and consequence of the project risk, so that it is possible to deal with and control the project risk.
Predict the possible consequences of risks
The fundamental purpose of project risk identification is to reduce and cancel the possible adverse consequences of project risks.After identifying the project risks and the main sources of project risks, it is necessary to comprehensively analyze the possible consequences of project risks and the severity of their consequences.Of course, the identification and analysis at this stage are mainlyqualitative analysis。
Risk identification method
The scope, type and severity of risks are often easily exaggerated or narrowed subjectively, which makes the projectrisk assessment Analysis and disposal of errors, resulting in unnecessary losses.There are many methods for project risk identification, and any method that helps to find risk information can be used as a tool for risk identification.Here are some common methods:
Methods starting from subjective information sources
(1)Brainstorming(Brainstorming), also known as collective thinking, is based on expertscreative thinkingIt is an intuitive prediction and identification method to obtain future information.This method was initiated by American Osborne in 1939 and has been widely used since the 1950s.Brainstorming is usually carried out in a group of experts.With "macroIntelligent structure”On the basis of, through expert meetings, give play to the creative thinking of experts to obtain future information.This requires the person presiding over the expert meeting to make a statement at the beginning of the meetingIntermediate energyStimulate the "inspiration" of experts and urge them to feel an urgent need to answer the questions raised at the meetingInformation exchangeAnd mutual inspiration, so as to induce experts to have "thinking resonance", so as to complement each other and produce "combination effect", obtain more future information, and make the prediction and identification results more accurate.At the end of 1970s, China began to introduce brainstorming method, which was widely valued and adopted.
(2)Delphi method (Delphi method)Also calledExpert survey method, it was in the early 1950sU.S.ARand Corporation Rand CorporationfrontSoviet UnionNuclear attackThe risk is raised from time to time, and it is rapidly prevailing in the world.It is a method to identify risks by relying on the intuitive ability of experts. Now this method has been widely used in economy, societyEngineering technologyAnd other fields.The process of project risk identification using the Delphi method is that the project risk team selects experts in relevant fields of the project, and establishes a direct relationship with these expertsCorrespondenceContact, collect experts' opinions by letter, and then make a comprehensive arrangement, and then anonymously feed back to all experts to ask for opinions again.In this way, after four to five rounds of repetition, the experts' opinions gradually tend to be consistent as the basis for final identification.This law was introduced into China in the 1970s and has been approvedmanyproject managementIt has been applied in the activity and has achieved satisfactory results.
(3)Scenario analysis method(Scenarios analysis)It is owned by American Slill CompanyScientific researchersPierre Wark proposed in 1972.It is based onDevelopment trendThrough systematic analysis of relevant issues inside and outside the system, design a variety of possible future prospects, and then usefilm scriptTo describe the development trend of the system from beginning to end.When a project lasts for a long time, various technologies, economies andsocial factors Impact of, available scenariosanalytical methodTo predict and identify its key risk factors and their impact.The scenario analysis method is particularly useful for the following situations: reminding decision makers of the possible risks or crisis consequences of certain measures or policies;Suggest the risk scope to be monitored;Study the influence of some key factors on the future process;Remind people of the risks that the development of a certain technology will bring to people.Scenario analysis method is applicable to projects with many variable factorsRisk predictionAnd identifiedSystem technologyIt assumes that the key influencing factors arePossibleOn the basis of the above, multiple scenarios are constructed, and various possible future results are proposed, so that appropriate measures can be taken to prevent problems before they occur.The scenario analysis method has been widely used abroad since the mid-1970s, andTarget expansionMethod, gap filling method, future analysis method and other specific application methods.Some largetransnational corporationsScenario analysis method has been successively used for risk prediction and identification of some large projects.Due to its complex operation process, the specific application of this method in China is still rare.
Methods starting from objective information sources
(1)Checklistmethod。The checklist is generally based onProject environment, product ortechnical information, team members' skills or defects and other risk factorsRisk eventAnd the source.The checklist can include: reasons for the success or failure of previous projects;Project scope, cost, quality, progress, procurement and contract, human resources andcommunicateEtc;Project product orService Instruction;Skills of project management members;Available resources of the project, etc.project managerAccording to the checklist, it is relatively easy to associate the potential risks of this project.This method may reveal less absolute risk than other methods, but it can identify some risks that cannot be found by other methods.
(2)Flow chart method。flow chartThe method should first establish aProjectThe general flow chart and sub flow chart of the project shall show all activities of the project implementation.Flowchart availablenetwork diagramIt is also profitableWBSTo represent.It can uniformly describe the work steps of the project;Show the key links of the project;Be able to compare the actual process with the imagined situation;It is convenient to check the work progress.This is a very usefulStructured approachIt can help to analyze and understand the specific links of project risks and the risks between each link.The project risk identification results completed by this method can be used toRisk Management Provide basis.
(3)Financial statement method。Through analysisBalance Sheet, business statements, and financial records, the project risk manager can identify all current property, liability, and personal loss risks of the enterprise or project.These reports andFinancial forecast、BudgetWhen linked, risk managers can identify future risks.This is because the project or enterpriseoperating activitiesEither the currency or the project itself are involvedrisk management The most important consideration object.
Project risk assessment
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Project risk assessment refers toFull life cycleTo effectively identify and analyze project riskscontrol risk Provide basis.risk evaluation It is usually divided into two steps: first,Risk identification;Second,risk analysis 。Risk identification refers to the process of checking the situation and determining potential risk areas, and investigatingproject implementation Problems andownerAnd users' concerns should be addressed in all aspects of the projectassessmentIn order to find out the potential risk scope, the methods of identifying risks mainly include system engineering documents and life cyclecost analysis 、Progress analysis, baseline cost estimation, etc., projectWork breakdown structure(WBS)As a framework for risk identification, each decomposition from the top to the bottom is analyzed in detail.Risk analysis refers to the analysis required to determine the possibility of problems and the results caused by their occurrence. Its purpose is to find out the causes of risks, measure the results and risk size (level). Many existing methods are helpful to risk analysis, such asNetwork planning technology(VERTandPERTEtc.) andlife cycle cost (LCC)Models, etc.
For pre project evaluation and in-process evaluation, risk evaluation is included.In the pre project evaluation, risk evaluation refers to the evaluation of the projectEnvironmental riskPrediction and evaluation of, includingPolitical risks、economic risks、Natural risk、Technical riskWait, it's a projectfeasibility studyA component of.Here we mainly discuss the risk evaluation in the evaluation phase of the project, because in the projectImplementation processThe project manager needs to keep abreast of the risk situation faced by the current project, point out the abnormal risk signals of the project, and take measures in advance if necessaryCorrective measures。
Project risk treatment
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Current projectRisk treatmentThe means mainly includeRisk Management 、Risk Retention 、Risk transferThree types.Among them, project risk control refers to taking all possible means to avoid project risks, eliminate project risks, or take emergency measures to avoid the risks that have occurred and the risks that may be causedriskLoss controlstayMinimumOr within an acceptable range.Project risk control must be based on certain assumptions and costs, such asRisk avoidanceIt means that project decision-makers will lose the opportunity to obtain high returns or must pass the high costTechnical proposalThe essence of dealing with risks still lies in paying a lot of risk expenses.In addition, project risk control means that in addition to skills, decision makers mustExperiential knowledge, early accumulation, financial support, or effective project risk control will be difficult to achieve.
Project risk retention is also one of the treatment means of project risk control, whose premise is toassessmentIt is concluded that the probability of occurrence is small or large, butRisk lossSmall, or the probability and risk losses are both large but within the expected range or acceptable range.In addition, when the risk is not availableEffective controlHowever, when it is necessary to carry out the project, the project decision-maker will also adopt the risk retention strategy.Most projects in China do not carry out risk assessment, or set up a small amount of project reserves (such asContingency)It is usually incorrect to think that all risks can be included.
At present, risk control and risk retention are the main ways to deal with projects in China. The economic root of the problems and drawbacks is that the state-owned enterprises are largemedium-sized enterpriseOr all undertaken by government departmentsproject investment The government usually pays for the project risk, and the enterprise or project leader is not responsible for the project risk loss.The inefficiency of project risk management has led to“Triple super”Phenomenon, namely budget estimate exceeding estimate, budget exceeding estimate, final accountOverbudget。With the establishment of ChinaSocialist market economy,Investor(state-owned enterprise or government)Economic responsibilityIt is becoming clearer and more specific, and decision-makers of project investment have begun to pay more attention to itInvestment estimationOfaccuracyThe effectiveness of project risk treatment has been greatly improved.
Compared with project risk control and project risk retention, project risk transfer is a more effective means to deal with project risk.For example, transfer the project to a professional insurance company engaged in risk consolidation or otherVenture capital institutions, which is a kind of compliancemarket economyRegular and fair means of transfer.According to the originalMinistry of ConstructionandAdministration for Industry and CommerceJointly formulated and issued (constructionModel contract text)Provisions,Project OwnerAnd projectcontractorInsurance can be negotiated jointly.Currently, due to participation in the actualinsuranceThe number of items is small, and the three major insurance companies in China chargepremium It is also expensive, andinsurance contract The terms are obviously unfavorable to the project party.As the number of insured items increases year by yearcompetitivenessIt is more and more obvious that the premium and service will be transferred to the direction beneficial to the project partyTransfer strategyIt will become more and more perfect and mature.