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12 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

In a one-on-one meeting, I asked Mike how he was identifying, analyzing, and managing his risks. His response revealed his belief in risk management but a lack of actual application with his teams. Warren Buffett says, "Risk comes from not knowing what you are doing." Failure to focus on the risks that matter.

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Business Leadership for IT Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Before I’d got far reading Gary Lloyd’s Business Leadership for IT Projects I realized he was offering a critical assessment on the Standish report on project failure – thankfully. M]inimize the degree of IT change, and hence the risk, if you ask the team to generate zero or low-cost options, focusing on project redesign,” he writes.

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A Quick Guide to Contractor Risk & Contractor Risk Management

ProjectManager.com

Risk is always present in construction projects. By definition, construction risk feels unpredictable and damaging, but you can identify and manage them. You may feel you can control risk in your organization and construction management team—but what happens when you’re working with independent contractors?

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How to Build a Risk Culture in Your Team

ProjectManager.com

What Is Risk Culture? Risk culture is simply an organization’s employee’s awareness, attitudes and behaviors towards risk and how they’ll manage it. An organization that has a risk culture simply means they’re prepared for identifying, managing and mitigating risks as issues arise in their work.

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Driving Discovery and Experimentation in your Organization

Speaker: Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach, Product Talk, David Bland, Founder and CEO, Precoil, and Hope Gurion, Product Coach and Advisor, Fearless Product LLC

How to accept and mitigate risk. How to build leadership support for a culture of experimentation, no matter how mature your organization is. We'll cover: Why discovery and experimentation are important. June 4, 2019 9:30 AM PDT, 12:30 PM EDT, 5:30 PM BST

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Project Management and Leadership – can you have one without the other?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Leadership skills are also crucial for project management – but so often overlooked or taken for granted. Leadership skills and management skills are different things and, especially within the project management industry, it’s important to be aware of the differences. Leadership without Project Management.

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The Leadership Attitude

Rebel’s Guide to PM

There has been a notable shift in recent years to talking about project leadership, as distinct from project management. Management, as the saying goes, is about doing things right, and leadership is about doing the right things. In reality, both leadership and management are often done by the same person – the project manager.