Introduction
Audience
Exploring Safran Risk documents features and techniques on how to use Safran Risk in order to identify, map, analyze and manage associated risks in your project. It is assumed that the user understands the basics of Project Management. It is further assumed that the user knows how to perform basic user operations in the Windows environment. Exploring Safran Risk is aimed at both beginners and those who already have experience in Risk analysis.
How this is organized
The following provides a brief overview of each section in the Exploring Safran Risk user guide.
User interface and navigation
Explains the user interface, introduces the functions of the Safran Risk windows, and briefly describes how to navigate, use the keyboard, mouse and screen controls to use the application effectively.
Global Risks
Describes how users can define global or common risks and how they can be shared across your projects. Defining global risks will help you build a corporate risk structure for your projects. Global Risks may be assigned to any project.
Risk Calendars
Delivers detail information on how to create and use risk calendars in your projects. Using risk calendars allows you to model situations where there may be an uncertain amount of downtime, for example due to adverse weather conditions.
Schedules
Explains how to create a project, add activity information, to work with logic and how to define Resource requirements. In this chapter, you will get detailed instructions on setting up the project’s calendars, profiles, userfield and rules. In addition, you will learn how to import and export your projects.
Schedule warnings
Provides you with information on how the project analysis tool can give you detailed insight into your schedule quality and pays particular attention to any areas that could present an issue when running a risk analysis. You can use the schedule warning for assessing your schedule’s integrity and credibility.
Project Risks
Will guide you through how to define the risks and impacts that will be applied to your project.
Correlations
Explains why the correlation matrix is important for risk calculation and how you can correlate the risks that you have identified in your project.
Risk Mapping
Will guide you through mapping the potential risks within your project.
Risk Analysis
Provides a complete overview of running the risk analysis and interpreting the results including distribution graphs, sensitivity analysis and critical path maps.