SYNOPSIS

Managing Project Risks effectively is crucial for successful project deliveries. Risk management is beyond the formal project risk exercise demanded by project governance, instead it is a day-to-day state of mind and action to remove obstacles along the project implementation journey, to minimize disruptions especially on the critical paths, as well as to maneuver side-ways or over the significant risks that lie ahead.

There will be sharing on fundamental considerations to help us manage project risks based on the triple constraints of project management. Areas of project risk management are from early risks identification to effective engagement with stakeholders; and along the project life cycle from project charter in the early Front End phases up until the project handover.

Project practitioners need to oversee wide-angle perspectives and look at the big picture, on how potentially project risks may spill over as issues or negative consequences to the future operations and impact to businesses. Key areas such as setting up realistic yet improved targets, and the soft skills required in project risk management will be discussed with the participants. Managing Project Risks is both science and art, constantly an essential input to project decisions.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Mr. Alex Zulkarnain Zulkarim

Mr. Alex Zulkarnain is the Vice President of IPMA (International Project Management Association) Malaysia. He graduated from University of Bradford, UK in Chemical Engineering, and currently holds position as HeRO (Head of Regional Office) IRSO East Coast in PETRONAS (GTS/PD&T and PTSSB).

An experienced project management practitioner for the past 30 years, his contributions for PETRONAS include leading the development and deployment of the first DEM (Design Engineering Manual), the first PEDMS (PETRONAS Engineering Data Management System), PPMS v6 (PETRONAS Project Management System version 6)  and  PGPMS  (PETRONAS  Group  Project  Management  System), among many others. He is also a PETRONAS qualified Custodian in General Project Management.

Alex has been in various roles since 1994 including project engineer, project control manager, project manager, project director, conference  director  (twice  for  IPMC),  Head  of  Project,  Head  of Project Control, and Head of Project Delivery Excellence. His first full  project  cycle  from  FEL1  until  IA  was  with  MLNG  Tiga  project 1997-2003.