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IPMA ITALY Journal of Applied Project Management
                                                            Volume 1 no. 2 (July 2015)

Even if the request to fit these           control, potential non-conformities,
                                           VISA obtainment, diseases, security in
unplanned activities in the plan did not   field.
                                           Overall, this dossier ended up to be not
come from an external customer, it is      only a reliable guidance for Site to let
                                           technicians manage unexpected and
definitely worth to mention it as an       difficult events but also a mean to
                                           rethink and adjust the project
example of unusual variation which         documentation and the fabrication at
                                           an extent which was deemed sufficient
had to be timely managed to support        to ensure a flawless installation at Site.
                                           The role of the project manager has
a pioneering project.                      been crucial in prioritizing time by time
                                           the activities needed to move forward
Every single discipline involved into the  the original project milestones in
                                           addition to the effort to produce,
project was required to list down all the  review and assemble the contingency
                                           plan book.
“low probability / high impact” risks

which they expected in consideration

of the Site environment. A first-of-kind

contingency plan (figure 2) was

developed and summarized in a book,

addressing issues in various areas such

as EHS, material management,

communications,        engineering,

machinery troubleshooting, remote

Figure 2 - Contingency plan

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