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What Is a Risk Register & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

What is a Risk Register? A risk register is a tool in risk management and project management. It is used to identify potential risks in a project or an organization, sometimes to fulfill regulatory compliance but mostly to stay on top of potential issues that can derail intended outcomes.

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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. Read next: my book Engaging Stakeholders on Projects: How to harness people power. You probably don’t need to be told of the risks of not engaging stakeholders. So why do we bother?

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Book review: Risk Happens

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. So what exactly is project risk management? Risk breakdown structures.

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The Stakeholder Salience Model and How to Use It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The strategic management layer in an organization is likely to have a say in how the project proceeds, as well as the key customer or client. This is a measure of how much influence they have over actions and outcomes. For example, how often are they likely to bring you urgent issues? Things that can’t wait?

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How to Manage Project Scope Without Scope Creep (with examples)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Scope management is the way to deal with that, so let’s talk about how we can use change control protocol to help with it all. Change control or change management is the process of managing unplanned but desired influences on the project. How to avoid scope creep. How do you do that? Is scope creep a risk?

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Implementing AI in your projects: how to start and improve

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For project professionals, we recommend exploring AI tools by first understanding what project tasks and deliverables can be automated easily and without risk. First look at the complexity of the task, including how many variables are involved, what data is involved, and if the task requires specific project management knowledge.

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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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