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

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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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Organizational Project Management (OPM) Basics

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Projects help execute those strategic plans, and organizational project management is the framework that aligns that work to the organization’s objectives. Let’s start by digging deeper into the definition of organizational project management and the various components that make it up. What Is Organizational Project Management?

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What Is a RAID Log and Why Should I Use One?

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Risks are a bit different than issues; risks are issues that haven’t happened yet. By identifying what risks are probable, you can prepare for them and have a response in place if and when they show up in your project. That’s called risk or issue management. Risks are the potential problems lurking in your project.

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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

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To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project managers use the five project management phases to structure projects and lead them from beginning to end.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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What Is a Stakeholder Register? (Example & Template Included)

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These people can be individuals, groups or institutions. Being able to identify them and their relationship to the project informs how to manage their expectations. There’s also a free stakeholder register template to download and use when managing stakeholders. Multiple project views also serve stakeholder management.

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How to Conduct a Change Readiness Assessment (Template Included)

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When managing projects, change management helps to avoid its negative effects, and a change readiness assessment is one of the ways how it does this. Being prepared for change helps to mitigate the risks associated with those changes. It might be a cliche, but those who ignore it are doomed to learn a lesson the hard way.