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by Abdul Razzak Rumane (Author)
This practical guide covers the steps necessary to sustain quality in a project from start to finish. The book shows how to identify risks at different processes, phases, and stages and offers directions on how to mitigate and reduce risks using analysis, evaluation, and monitoring.
Risk Management Applications Used to Sustain Quality in Projects: A Practical Guide focuses on applying risk management principles to manage quality in all project management processes, stages, and phases. The book discusses the potential risks that may occur at the different phases of the project life cycle, their effects on projects, and how to prevent them. It explores all the process elements and activities of risk management and provides steps on how to make the project more qualitative, competitive, and economical. Risk management processes are discussed at each project management processes and project lifecycle phase/stage to help the reader understand how various risks can occur and how to mitigate and reduce them.
The main audience for this book is project management professionals, quality managers, systems engineers, construction managers, and risk management professionals as well as industrial engineers, academics, and students.
Author Biography
Abdul Razzak Rumane Ph. D. is a Chartered Quality Professional-Fellow of The Chartered Quality Institute (UK) and a certified consultant engineer in electrical engineering. He obtained a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) degree from Marathwada University (now Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University) India in 1972 and received his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.). from Kennedy Western University, USA (now Warren National University) in 2005. His dissertation topic was "Quality Engineering Applications in Construction Projects".
Dr. Rumane has been honored by The International University of Ministry and Education, Missouri, USA awarded honorary degree of Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) for expertise in quality management in the year 2021 and The Yorker International University, USA, awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering in the year 2007. The Albert Schweitzer International Foundation honored him with gold medal for "Outstanding contribution in the field of Quality in Construction Projects" World Quality Congress awarded him "Global Award for Excellence in Quality Management and Leadership".
Dr. Rumane is an accomplished Engineer. He is associated with a number of professional organizations. He is a Chartered Quality Professional-Fellow of The Chartered Quality Institute (UK), Senior Member of American Society for Quality, Fellow of The Institution of Engineers (India), and has an Honorary Fellowship of Chartered Management Association (Hong Kong). He is Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (USA), and Member of Kuwait Society of Engineers, among others.
Dr. Rumane has attended many international conferences and has made technical presentations at various conferences. Dr. Rumane is an author of 6 useful books entitled "Quality Management in Construction Projects", First Edition (2010) "Quality Tools for Managing Construction Projects" (2013), "Quality Management in Construction Projects", Second Edition (2017), "Quality Management in Oil and Gas Projects" (2021), and Editor of book titled "Handbook of Construction Management: Scope, Schedule, and Cost Control" (2016). All of these books published by CRC Press (A Taylor & Francis Group Company), USA. A book entitled "Quality Auditing in Construction Projects: A Handbook" (2019) is published by Routledge, UK (A Taylor & Francis Group Company). His book "Quality Management in Construction Projects" is translated into Korean language.
Presently he is Treasurer of ASQ Kuwait Section and International Liaison Committee chair ASQ (Design and Construction Division) for the year 2022. He served as Secretary ASQ GC for the year 2019 and Secretary ASQ LMC, Kuwait for the year 2017 and 2018. He was honorary chairman of The Institution of Engineers (India), Kuwait chapter for the years 2016-17, 2013-14 and 2005 to 2007.
Dr. Rumane's professional career exceeds 50 years including 10 years in manufacturing industries and over 40 years in construction projects. Presently he is associated with SIJJEEL Co., Kuwait as Advisor and Director, Construction Management.
