This thesis deals with Risk Management within large projects. It is still a hot topic, because risk is an inherent part of any project and significantly affects its outcome. That is why it is paied more and more attention to Project Risk Management. This thesis is written in collaboration with a renowned multinational IT company delivering these large projects. One of the project factors is uniqueness. Conditions in the world are rapidly changing and companies are trying to gain a competitive advantage in their own IT. Uniqueness is obviously very important factor of IT innovation and that is the reason, why many companies implement their changes as a project. These projects must be directed to a succesfull outcome, therefore many methodologies was created to manage it. Current project are under greater pressure on the duration and cost of supply while maintaining high quality, which in practice means that to deliver successful projects is becoming increasingly difficult. Therefore, there should be greater emphasis on risk management, so an event that may threaten the success of the project. It is needed to learn and look for better and more efficient ways of Risk Management. The main scope of this thesis is to compare two project management methodologies (Prince 2 and RUP -- Rational Unified Process) with internal methodology of chosen IT company from the perspective of risk management and then to compare the project practices with the methodologies, to find any anomalies or errors and provide suggestions for improvement. Another objective is to find out and describe project risk management trends, and introduce some tools to support project risk management.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo o desenvolvimento de uma metodologia para a identificação de perigos e avaliação de riscos que possa ser aplicável a qualquer natureza de empresa e em qualquer dimensão, alinhado com os requisitos normativos do principal modelo de gerenciamento de segurança e saúde ocupacional adotado no mundo na atualidade – OHSAS 18001:1999 e que dele seja possível extrair um indicador de desempenho pró-ativo para avaliar o risco ocupacional na rotina organizacional. O que motiva o desenvolvimento dessa metodologia é a dificuldade observada nas empresas de conciliar e prover suas equipes, gerentes e empregados de um instrumento efetivo de gerenciamento de riscos que possa ser utilizado em todos os níveis atendendo simultaneamente aos requisitos de certificação em gestão de segurança e saúde ocupacional. Seu desenvolvimento foi conduzido com base na experiência de implantação de modelos de gestão, na bibliografia consultada e no uso de uma empresa piloto como meio de validação da mesma, além de outras experiências de implantação da metodologia em empresas de diferentes portes e atividade econômica, em paralelo à ação piloto. As experiências de implantação nas diversas empresas foram úteis na consolidação e na melhoria da metodologia, validação como um instrumento eficaz no gerenciamento de riscos ocupacionais, facilidade de integração e alinhamento com outras práticas da gestão ocupacional e geração de um indicador de desempenho que monitora o gerenciamento de riscos ocupacionais em todos os níveis de decisão da organização. / This paper presents a risk assessment methodology development applied to any company size and core business and aligned to OHSAS 18001:1999 normative requests which has being preferentially adopted worldwide as reference to occupational health and safety management. Also the development comprises a proactive risk performance indicator to be used on daily management routine in all organization levels. The risk assessment methodology development is motivated by the difficulties observed on companies which are adopting OHSAS 18001:1999 by providing an effective and easy use tool for occupational risk management to their personnel and managers in all levels. This development is based on acquired experience on implementing and improving management tool systems and models in different companies in Brazil, on consulted bibliography and also by adopting a large company in Brazil as a laboratory to validate the set up approaches to the main concepts as well as its application to other different companies as a mean of consolidate those concepts approaches. Those implementation experiences were useful to consolidate and improve the proposal methodology and to prove that its use as built is an easy, simple, strong and effective occupational risk management tool aligned and integrated to other management practices and organization needs. Beyond that, the methodology does provide to build an occupational risk performance indicator easy to obtain and to use on daily management routine in all organization levels.

Este trabalho tem como objetivo o desenvolvimento de uma metodologia para a identificação de perigos e avaliação de riscos que possa ser aplicável a qualquer natureza de empresa e em qualquer dimensão, alinhado com os requisitos normativos do principal modelo de gerenciamento de segurança e saúde ocupacional adotado no mundo na atualidade – OHSAS 18001:1999 e que dele seja possível extrair um indicador de desempenho pró-ativo para avaliar o risco ocupacional na rotina organizacional. O que motiva o desenvolvimento dessa metodologia é a dificuldade observada nas empresas de conciliar e prover suas equipes, gerentes e empregados de um instrumento efetivo de gerenciamento de riscos que possa ser utilizado em todos os níveis atendendo simultaneamente aos requisitos de certificação em gestão de segurança e saúde ocupacional. Seu desenvolvimento foi conduzido com base na experiência de implantação de modelos de gestão, na bibliografia consultada e no uso de uma empresa piloto como meio de validação da mesma, além de outras experiências de implantação da metodologia em empresas de diferentes portes e atividade econômica, em paralelo à ação piloto. As experiências de implantação nas diversas empresas foram úteis na consolidação e na melhoria da metodologia, validação como um instrumento eficaz no gerenciamento de riscos ocupacionais, facilidade de integração e alinhamento com outras práticas da gestão ocupacional e geração de um indicador de desempenho que monitora o gerenciamento de riscos ocupacionais em todos os níveis de decisão da organização. / This paper presents a risk assessment methodology development applied to any company size and core business and aligned to OHSAS 18001:1999 normative requests which has being preferentially adopted worldwide as reference to occupational health and safety management. Also the development comprises a proactive risk performance indicator to be used on daily management routine in all organization levels. The risk assessment methodology development is motivated by the difficulties observed on companies which are adopting OHSAS 18001:1999 by providing an effective and easy use tool for occupational risk management to their personnel and managers in all levels. This development is based on acquired experience on implementing and improving management tool systems and models in different companies in Brazil, on consulted bibliography and also by adopting a large company in Brazil as a laboratory to validate the set up approaches to the main concepts as well as its application to other different companies as a mean of consolidate those concepts approaches. Those implementation experiences were useful to consolidate and improve the proposal methodology and to prove that its use as built is an easy, simple, strong and effective occupational risk management tool aligned and integrated to other management practices and organization needs. Beyond that, the methodology does provide to build an occupational risk performance indicator easy to obtain and to use on daily management routine in all organization levels.

The diploma thesis deals with meteorology of project management and discipline application in the environment of the company, which is Panthers Otrokovice floorball club. The aim of this work is to evaluate the current state of the club's website, to analyze weaknesses and weaknesses. Based on these analyzes and requirements, new websites will be created. The final part of the diploma thesis will be devoted to the benefits of these plans.

This case study involved a safety and maintenance audit of Mercer University's intramural and recreational sports program. The purpose of the audit was to expose potentially hazardous conditions in the area of supervision, conduct of activities, facilities and equipment. A method of risk reduction in the form of a risk management strategy was implemented to control for potential injury producing conditions to participants. Regular safety inspections, the hiring and training of program supervisors, upgrading of facilities and equipment and a closer relationship between the intramural program and other campus departments were some of the remedial steps taken at Mercer to provide a relatively safe environment. / M.S.

This master's thesis deals with the area of risk management in project management. The aim is to create a complex risk management methodology and a functional prototype of the system that complements and supports it. The methodology is based on the fundamental principles of these areas and the analysis of currently used project and risk management approaches in practice. Selected were PRINCE2, Agile Approach and ITIL. The advantages of the methodology are its complexity, no bound to any standard but based on methodology's positive  features. Based on the methodology, a web application for management and visualization of projects and risks has been developed and supports work with it.

Corn production is scattered geographically over various continents, but most of it is grown in the United States. As such, the world price of corn futures contracts is largely dominated by North American corn prices as traded on the Chicago Board of Trade. In recent years, this market has been characterised by an increase in price volatility and magnitude of price movement as a result of decreasing stock levels. The development and implementation of an effective and successful derivative price risk management strategy based on the Chicago Board of Trade corn futures contract will therefore be of inestimable value to market stakeholders worldwide. The research focused on the efficient market hypothesis and the possibility of contesting this phenomenon through an application of a derivative price risk management methodology. The methodology is based on a combination of an analysis of market trends and technical oscillators with the objective of generating returns superior to that of a market benchmark. The study found that market participants are currently unable to exploit price movement in a manner which results in returns that contest the notion of efficient markets. The methodology proposed, however, does allow the user to consistently achieve returns superior to that of a predetermined market benchmark. The benchmark price for the purposes of this study was the average price offered by the market over the contract lifetime, and such, the efficient market hypothesis was successfully contested. / Business Management / D. Com. (Business Management)

Corn production is scattered geographically over various continents, but most of it is grown in the United States. As such, the world price of corn futures contracts is largely dominated by North American corn prices as traded on the Chicago Board of Trade. In recent years, this market has been characterised by an increase in price volatility and magnitude of price movement as a result of decreasing stock levels. The development and implementation of an effective and successful derivative price risk management strategy based on the Chicago Board of Trade corn futures contract will therefore be of inestimable value to market stakeholders worldwide. The research focused on the efficient market hypothesis and the possibility of contesting this phenomenon through an application of a derivative price risk management methodology. The methodology is based on a combination of an analysis of market trends and technical oscillators with the objective of generating returns superior to that of a market benchmark. The study found that market participants are currently unable to exploit price movement in a manner which results in returns that contest the notion of efficient markets. The methodology proposed, however, does allow the user to consistently achieve returns superior to that of a predetermined market benchmark. The benchmark price for the purposes of this study was the average price offered by the market over the contract lifetime, and such, the efficient market hypothesis was successfully contested. / Business Management / D. Com. (Business Management)