Rasoul Abdolmohammadi

Rasoul Abdolmohammadi (rasoulabdolmohammadi@yahoo.com) is an industrial engineer with more than 15 years of project management experience including risk, time and cost management. He currently works as planning and scheduling specialist in Petronas. His risk experience includes developing, implementing and training project risk processes for a range of mega-projects in the oil and gas and construction industries (for the first time in Iran), including quantitative risk analysis using Primavera Risk Analysis. Rasoul has published his experiences in the book "Practical Project Risk Management Processes," and he has presented on risk at international conferences.

Articles by Rasoul Abdolmohammadi

• To know or not to know, that is the question

  Thursday, January 14, 2021

  Many organizations seek to use risk management to create added value, but their risk processes often have weaknesses or faults which affect the outcome. Some of them are not aware of these weaknesses, while others know very well what they are. A Persian proverb says, “The person who doesn’t know, and doesn’t know that he doesn’t know, will be ignorant forever.” It is clearly better to know our process weaknesses than not to know them, but how can we tackle our lack of knowledge? Here are three steps.

• How can we apply democratic principles to risk management?

  Wednesday, March 22, 2017

  ​Former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill seemed to have a problem with democracy. He famously said, "Democ­racy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried." Greek philosopher Plato agreed, putting democracy near the bottom of his list of five types of government (aristocracy, timocracy, oligarchy, democracy and tyranny).