Resource material
We aim to increase our readers’ knowledge about risk management and contribute to the professional development of the field. We are especially interested in exchanging and developing ideas with others in the field whether they are clients or other professionals. Here you will find a variety of resource material, for people with different levels of experience. We hope you find it interesting and informative.
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Books articles and conference papers
General books, articles and conference papers we have written or to which we have contributed
- Quantitative risk analysis and project governance: Risk Engineering Society Conference, RISK 2023
- Does risk management add value? RMIA Conference 2023
- The colour of hydrogen
- Endorsement: Chris Chapman, Enlightened Planning: Using Systematic Simplicity to Clarify Opportunity, Risk and Uncertainty for Much Better Management Decision Making
- Foreword: David Hillson, Capturing Upside Risk: Finding and Managing Opportunities in Projects
- Keynote presentation at the AURIMS Conference 2019
- Big risks in the tertiary sector
- Complexity – What’s new?
- Book review: Grant Avery, Project Management, Denial and the Death Zone
- Forward to World Class Risk Management
- Hearing over the Cacophony: RiskNZ Keynote
- Project Risk Management Guidelines
- Unknown unknowns
- How to manage risk more effectively — make it part of how you manage
- Whats wrong with GRC?
- Enhance your risk management and create value
- Taking Occam’s Razor to risk management
- Thoughts on the integration of risk management
- Risk appetite – is using this concept worth the risk?
- How good is our risk management? How boards should find out
- Big or small, all can win with risk management
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Complexity
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Cost and schedule risk analysis
Material on quantitative risk analysis of costs, schedules and value, often in association with major projects and investments
- Quantitative risk analysis and project governance: Risk Engineering Society Conference, RISK 2023
- Correlation in quantitative risk analysis
- Extreme project schedule over run
- Range analysis – summary of good practice
- Range analysis resources for projects
- Schedule uncertainty in linear developments
- Linking and integrating different views of project risk
- Quantifying the risk to software project costs
- Simple schedule risk modelling with Safran Risk
- The real risk to your project budget
- Contingency assessment methods and trends
- Cost and schedule risk assessment – risk factor modelling (PMI Conference 2014)
- Project cost contingency
- Beta PERT origins
- Weaknesses of common project cost risk modelling methods
- Quantifying risk in business and projects
- Risk management: modelling future costs
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Governance assurance and oversight
Material on risk management and its links with governance, oversight, internal audit and assurance processes in organisations, investments and projects
- Embedding risk management at the top
- Adapting governance for complex projects
- Controls 4: Monitoring risks and controls
- Controls 5: Developing an assurance program
- Controls 3: Conducting a simple control self-assessment
- Controls 2: Introduction to control design
- Controls 1: Introduction to control assurance
- Getting the most out of risk assessment
- Governance oversight and the risk management framework
- Effective risk management and governance
- Setting priorities for risk treatment and assurance of controls
- Effective risk management under PGPA
- Evaluating the effectiveness of risk management
- Control effectiveness
- Relationship between internal audit and risk management
- Investment opportunity management and governance
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Managing risk in organisations
Material about enterprise risk management, ISO 31000 and related risk management standards, how to develop ERM frameworks and how to implement them in your organisation.
- Does risk management add value? RMIA Conference 2023
- Embedding risk management at the top
- Controls 4: Monitoring risks and controls
- Learning lessons and root cause analysis
- Bow tie analysis
- Controls 5: Developing an assurance program
- Process and guidewords for organisational HAZOPs
- Showing that effective risk management adds value
- Controls 3: Conducting a simple control self-assessment
- Controls 2: Introduction to control design
- Controls 1: Introduction to control assurance
- Headline risks – seeing the big picture
- Introductory guide: Preparing for a risk assessment
- Getting the most out of risk assessment
- Governance oversight and the risk management framework
- Do you have a sound risk management framework?
- Setting priorities for risk treatment and assurance of controls
- Effective risk management under PGPA
- Starting points
- Risk assessment and risk treatment
- Evaluating the effectiveness of risk management
- Enterprise risk management
- A simple guide to risk and its management
- ISO 31000:2009 – setting a new standard for risk management
- Starting out with risk management
- Strategic business risk management
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Managing risk in projects
Material on project risk and governance, and the related international standard IEC 62198, 'Managing risk in projects – Application guidelines', and how to implement effective risk management in your projects
- Quantitative risk analysis and project governance: Risk Engineering Society Conference, RISK 2023
- Does risk management add value? RMIA Conference 2023
- Embedding risk management at the top
- Adapting governance for complex projects
- Range analysis – summary of good practice
- Range analysis resources for projects
- Learning lessons and root cause analysis
- Foreword: David Hillson, Capturing Upside Risk: Finding and Managing Opportunities in Projects
- Quantifying the risk to software project costs
- Headline risks – seeing the big picture
- The real risk to your project budget
- Complexity and project risk
- Forward to World Class Risk Management
- What does risk look like in a complex project?
- Project risk modelling
- Risk management for projects (notes on prompt questions)
- Why risk management should be simple: presentation to the PMI Conference, September 2014
- Project Risk Management Guidelines
- Investment opportunity management and governance
- Project risk management methods
- Awareness and understanding of risk in large public sector projects
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Safety-related risk management
Risk management approaches applied to safety, including technical aspects of hazards and risks
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Techniques and special applications
Material relating to particular techniques, sectors or applications
- The colour of hydrogen
- Learning lessons and root cause analysis
- Process and guidewords for organisational HAZOPs
- Process and guidewords for procedural HAZOPs
- Schedule uncertainty in linear developments
- Complexity – What’s new?
- Sense making and corporate social responsibility
- Complexity and project risk
- Risk management for projects (notes on prompt questions)
- Designing good procedures
- Tender price risk
- Enhancing team effectiveness
- Shared services implementation
- Climate change and risk management
- Control effectiveness
- Estimating limits of liability for contracts
- Review of methodology for consequence assessment
- Risk management for resource companies
- Risk management for major procurements
- Lognormal distribution summary
- Awareness and understanding of risk in large public sector projects
- Risk management and mining – developments and trends
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Webinars and presentations
Webinars, presentations and online video resources