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Difference between quantitative and qualitative risk analysis?

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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
I am looking for live real example that you have used on your project.

I have read the definition in PMBOK Guide Sixth Edition.
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Nov 01, 2018 10:25 AM
Replying to Ruth Marina Lopez Perez
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In my experience I have used qualitative and quantitative analysis. Although the qualitative is objective, I always do it mainly because of the characteristic of our country, which has suffered volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, wars and social outbreaks, floods due to rain and hurricanes.
Quantitative I do it because we are always affected by the failure to meet the deadlines with suppliers, and then by nature.
Last year I had the experience of change of supplier preferred by the organization, with a track record of many years of relationship in infrastructure works of networks and servers. The change was not good, because we expected excellence from the new provider. The costs increased.
I agree with Sante Vergini.
Ruth thanks for the feed back, I thought that force majeure is already built in the contract that you don't have to calculate well we don't have it here may be that's why, good informative
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Peter Rapin Subject Matter Expect; Project Delivery| Independent Consultant Ontario, Canada
Riyadh; Qualitative gives you Low, Medium and High whereas Quantitative will convert this into real values ($ and days) thus allowing you to prioritize risks based on cost and time impacts. Prioritizing then makes sure you apply effort where its most needed.
Quantitative analysis also allows you to evaluate the effectiveness of the mitigation measures. The cost of mitigation should be kept less than the benefit of the mitigation. The impact after mitigation plus effort of mitigation should be less than the initial or inherent impact.
In addition Quantitative analysis provides a cost and time allowance in the project budget by applying probability calculations.
The question becomes - when is this important?
If you're not sure, do a quick business case looking at the needs, pros and cons.
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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada
Peter thank for your good feedback
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