Architecture, Engineering and Construction

Mitigate risk is a common phrase heard throughout the Architecture & Engineering industry, but what does it mean and is your firm doing the right things to truly mitigate risk? Often times, risk translates to dollars, but there is more to it than just money.

Project risk management can fail for many reasons – faulty assumptions, overlooked events, bias (conscious and subconscious) or a poor schedule foundation.Read on to explore the top reasons for failure and provided tips on how to get it right.

You’ve gone to a lot of effort to analyze project risk and determine the best way to respond to it. Now, how do you best sell your findings to the powers that be? Read on to find out…

So you’ve run a schedule risk analysis on your project…now what?  All of your work so far has been leading up to one very important decision – how to mitigate those risks.  Read on to learn some helpful tips and tricks related to schedule risk mitigation.

To expand the understanding and confidence of project teams with high quality risk analysis, TransCanada needed a way to simplify and streamline without giving up the quality of their results. Read on to find out why, after a careful evaluation of a variety of software solutions for schedule risk, team leaders at TransCanada settled on Deltek Acumen Risk.

Projects rarely behave the way you want them to. Despite the best-laid plans, every project carries uncertainty and risk that all too often lead to cost and schedule overruns. Deltek Acumen Risk™ was designed to help organizations effectively account for and proactively reduce risk exposure, resulting in an accurate forecast you can rely on. Let's look at 7 reasons Acumen Risk outperforms the competition…

In today’s post we’re exploring reporting techniques and new ways of interpreting risk analysis results that actually enable the project team to make proactive changes in reducing their risk exposure and increasing their chance of successful on-time, on-budget completion.

In Part 2 of this blog post series, Yancy Qualls discusses how - when used properly - Deltek Acumen can help identify and quantify schedule risk to a project so that immediate action can be taken to improve execution.

Yancy Qualls from Humphrey & Associates explains why companies should perform schedule risk assessments (SRAs) and how Deltek Acumen can help simplify the process.