Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Power Power is a measure of how much influence they have over actions and outcomes. Together, an assessment of these three elements can tell you how engaged a stakeholder is or will be in the work and how they could influence the project. Dominant stakeholders This group has high power and also high legitimacy to influence the project.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Did you know that 56% of your project budget might be at risk due to poor communications? At a high level, project communication management ensures that key information flows efficiently and in a predetermined way between the various people working on (or impacted by) a project. who support it.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 10, 2024

They’ll be able to influence those affected by the change or have a personality that can help guide others or overcome resistance to change. They can improve communication by sharing information, addressing concerns and getting feedback from employees. This will inform resource allocation and reduce risk.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 23, 2024

Risk: Risks can be positive, as in opportunities, or negative, as in threats, which can occur anytime throughout the project’s life cycle. Make a Lessons Learned Document A lessons-learned document is a great tool to capture what worked and what didn’t work in a project so that information can be applied to future projects.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 9, 2025

Internal stakeholders are crucial for project success because they have direct control or influence over the resources, processes and policies that drive the project forward. This helps them understand the projects scope, schedule and progress, enabling them to make informed decisions and track performance.

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 25, 2024

List the factors that will influence the next step. Risk Management A decision flowchart for risk management maps out potential risks and the steps to address them. Start with a risk event and add decisions. Each path leads to migration actions or contingency plans, ensuring proactive and systematic risk handling.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Perhaps these individuals are influencing you through a blog, online videos, online courses, or books. Grab a cup of coffee as I share seven influencers that I follow. His comments are professional, informative, and spot on. His perspective on project and risk management is balanced and practical. Susanne Madsen.

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ProjectManager.com

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

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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ProjectManager.com

JANUARY 21, 2019

Information technology (IT) is no longer a tucked away department with little impact on day-to-day affairs. It’s big business that’s involved in almost every sector of the economy, and therefore carries some major risks. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you the importance of IT risk management in this short tutorial video.

Risk Management 362

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 6, 2025

These projects are conducted on a small scale to minimize risks and costs, and this test phase is used to evaluate the effectiveness of an idea before full deployment. Its a learning opportunity, which helps identify issues, gather data and make improvements, as well as mitigate risks by detecting failures early.

Manufacturing 332

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 14, 2025

Lets first define what lessons learned in project management means, then explain why they should be documented and how valuable information can be collected. Lessons learned typically cover areas such as project planning, risk management, communication, stakeholder engagement, resource allocation and overall execution.

Software Review 221

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Scrum.org

JULY 22, 2024

This approach increases predictability and enables Agile teams to deliver value sooner and reduce risk. Use this information to influence what the Scrum team works on next. This information can be used to improve the team's ability to predict future delivery. Plan to deliver something usable each Sprint.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Product managers can make more informed decisions by gaining insight into their product's financial performance. This metric can influence financial decisions about where to invest. Risk management should include identifying potential cost overruns and creating backup plans. Visualization helps make informed decisions.

Agile 214

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Kiron Bondale

MARCH 3, 2019

A student in a project management class I taught shared the concern that it was very hard for her to get risk responses implemented. Acceptance is a risk response strategy, but project managers are not supposed to just report on accidents, they are expected to prevent them. But there’s only so much that they can do by themselves.

Risk Management 273

Risk Management Change Management Risk PMI 273

ProjectManager.com

APRIL 10, 2025

This is a great opportunity for those new to project management, but also serves professional project managers and their teams who can never go over this critical information enough. They facilitate risk identification, coordinate early resource discussions and ensure stakeholder engagement. Well define them in detail.

Software Review 221

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Positions at this level carry a significant amount of influence over strategic direction and policy. You could be the project sponsor for significant high-profile projects with far-reaching impact, political sensitivities or business criticality, and high-risk dependencies across the business.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 7, 2023

Organizational Process Assets (OPAs) are the collective knowledge, experience, and information that an organization has accumulated over time. They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). They influence how we do the work.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MARCH 4, 2025

When Im mentoring project managers, one of the key things I hear time and time again is that they want to be given more responsibility and have greater influence over the work. You cant do anything to address risk either because people dont take your recommendations seriously. This is the curse of not being credible at work.

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ProjectManager.com

APRIL 22, 2021

A stakeholder map is a visual, four-quadrant influence-interest matrix used to identify stakeholders and categorize them in terms of their influence and interest in the project. It helps to mitigate risk and discover the stakeholder’s real goals for the project. Try it for yourself today! What Is a Stakeholder Map?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 9, 2018

It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens ! When we fall prey to Group Think, decisions tend to be based on “what we all know” – that is, members are inhibited from challenging the consensus and relevant information, ideas and challenges are not fully explored. Group Think Introduces Risk. Dr Mike Clayton.

Risk Management 278

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 7, 2023

These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. That’s why project managers and their teams need to take time to identify enterprise environmental factors that might influence their projects and figure out an action plan to mitigate or respond to them in a timely, effective manner.

Underperforming Technical Team 473

Underperforming Technical Team Influencer PMO Governance 473

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 2, 2020

Project managers are well aware of this and spend much of their time planning in order to avoid negative risk and its potential impact. There are many tools that can mitigate risk in a project, but it also takes skill in something called project controls. Risk management. What Are Project Controls? Methodology. Cost estimates.

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Project Risk Coach

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Third, some PMO managers lack authority and relational influence in the organization. Engage in Strategic Risk Management Strategic risk management is a process for identifying, analyzing, and managing risks most critical to the achievement of your organization's goals. How will the PMO engage with the senior leaders?

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ProjectManager.com

MARCH 9, 2022

Stakeholders are very important because they can have a positive or negative influence on the project with their decisions. If you want more information on this, you can dive into stakeholder theory and shareholder theory , two similar yet different approaches. Pro tip: The terms stakeholder and shareholder are commonly confused.

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ProjectManager.com

OCTOBER 14, 2021

You need to be aware of the project environment and prepare for its influence on your project throughout the project management life cycle. The project manager must understand the project environment and proactively plan to manage the factors that might influence the project. It’s sort of like managing risk in that way.

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Scrum.org

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Cultural Shift: Over time, Elevating Katas influence not just processes, but also the culture, encouraging transparency, continuous learning, and a broader understanding of product and customer outcomes. Repeatedly practicing vertical slicing enables the team to deliver incremental value faster and reduce the risk of late integration issues.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Note: At the time of writing, the PMBOK ® Guide – 7 th Edition has not yet been published, so this information is taken from various sources of publicly available information from PMI webinars, articles, and the Project Management Professional ( PMP )® Exam Content Outline. I’ll update the article when more information is available.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Reduce and Uncover Risk 3. I have a whole pack of information on stakeholder engagement on projects so for now, let’s focus on what’s commonly taught in project management courses, and look at stakeholder management. Your stakeholders can also help you identify new risks. What is stakeholder management?

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 5, 2021

Project Risk Management Plan Define how you will identify, evaluate, manage, and control risks. Project Stakeholder Management Plan Define how you will identify and record stakeholders, interest, needs, power, and influence. appeared first on Project Risk Coach. schedule baseline) Subsidiary plans (e.g.,

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Planning Project Life Cycle Defining Controlling 379

Rebel’s Guide to PM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For project professionals, we recommend exploring AI tools by first understanding what project tasks and deliverables can be automated easily and without risk. Examples include: Generating reports Analyzing documents with multiple types of data Summarizing meeting notes Organizing information into company templates Performing calculations.

ChatGPT 482

ChatGPT Generative AI Artificial Inteligence PMI 482

Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 3, 2022

Winston Churchill said, "True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information." In this article, I share 30 risk evaluation tips to help you tap into your genius. Use some of these tips to help you and your project teams determine which risks matter most. 4 x 5 = 20).

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Inloox

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. Although some risks can be eliminated with a suitable solution strategy, certain risks can never be completely avoided in the project context.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 3, 2021

This is a measure of how much influence they have over actions and outcomes. Together, an assessment of these three elements can tell you how engaged a stakeholder is or will be in the work and how they could influence the project. This group has high power and also high legitimacy to influence the project.

Influencer 482

Influencer Governance Government Defining 482

The IIL Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2024

By Rick Lemieux – Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of the DVMS Institute October 16, 2024 Cyber risk and resilience have emerged as critical considerations for individuals and organizations. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) is a voluntary framework that helps organizations manage cybersecurity risks.

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Kiron Bondale

JUNE 14, 2020

The author asked what needs to be considered when planning risk responses. The majority of the answers offered focused on characteristics of the individual risks themselves such as their probability, impact, ability to be responded to and so on.

Risk 207

Risk Risk Management Influencer Government 207

ProjectManager.com

MARCH 5, 2019

They are often active, and they can have a positive or negative influence depending on their actions. Stakeholders can influence everything and everyone in a project or organization, including senior management, project leaders, team members, customers, users and many others. Also, who will wield the most influence? Compromise.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 30, 2024

In project management, RAID is an acronym for: Risks Assumptions Issues Dependencies These are key things to track as a project manager. Risks Risks are things that might affect your project if they happen. We generally think of risks as things that could cause the project to go wrong, but risk could also be something positive.

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