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Project Risk Management: How-to guide (with tips)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risk management is a staple skill of project managers. As the project environments we work in get more and more complex, with greater levels of uncertainty and more transformative, disruptive projects, being able to deal with risk remains top of the list of desirable skills for managers in all areas of business.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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AI in Project Management: An Interview with Lloyd Skinner

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’m not convinced that 2030 is a realistic target, though, given the project management maturity levels and willingness to adopt new tech that I see on a daily basis. It’s about saying there might be a risk, so let’s examine whether there is a risk.”. Lloyd seems to feel the same. People want to make their job easier.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). Don’t get me started on Enterprise Environmental Factors either.)

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Project Cycle Management – A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

It also assists in planning and review and can be used when managing multiple projects. Formulation or Planning: The formulation phase determines if the project is feasible and if it will deliver on the benefits it proposes by completing the financing proposal, along with technical and administrative provisions.

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5 Notorious Failed Projects & What We Can Learn from Them

ProjectManager.com

Developed by Sony, Betamax was introduced in the mid-1970s but was unable to get traction in the market, where JVC’s VHS technology was king. Long before it discontinued the technology, Betamax was already irrelevant. This was a creative project, which might not have met its paper objective, but created a slew of useful technologies.

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What’s The Future of Project Management? (2020)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s certainly something I’ve used: ongoing iterations for development with significant customer involvement in the deliverables at all stages, but managed within a waterfall governance structure and life cycle. I review a lot of PM software tools and I don’t see many companies taking massive leaps into new ways of doing old tasks.

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