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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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10 Free Goal-Setting and Tracking Templates for Excel and Word

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Once the goals are set, use this goal-tracking template to ensure you’re meeting your goals. Now, those goals must be communicated to the team responsible for executing the individual tasks that will lead to achieving those goals. It’s another acronym, this one standing for strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

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

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This then acts as a central repository for stakeholder information, which the project manager and project team use to understand the project stakeholders and their needs, expectations and any risks or opportunities associated with their involvement in the project. Then, they can share the plan with the project team and stakeholders.

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What Is a Post-Implementation Review in Project Management?

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How do you lead a post-mortem on your project to learn how to repeat the good stuff and lose the bad stuff? Each project team can develop its post-implementation review process to make it as detailed as needed, but here are some general post-implementation review steps that can be applied to any project.

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Embracing Positive Risk: A Path to Innovation

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We often think of risk as a negative force, something to be avoided or mitigated. If you ask most middle managers what their main job is, a majority will reflect that they manage the flow of work to their people and manage the risks of the work. This could involve personal gratitude, public recognition, or bonuses.

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Real-life tips for managing Red projects and getting back to Green

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Then the conversation is about ‘this project now meets the criteria for Red reporting’ rather than ‘We’ve hit a major issue so I’m going to slap Red on it this week.’ Maybe your estimates were poor or you forgot to add something into scope that you really should have worked out in advance. Assess the level of risk. It happens.

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11 Project management skills employers expect you to have

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your thoughts turn to what you should be doing for your professional development in the months ahead… and there’s a lot of choice. I don’t have the time (or the requirement) to take a certification course, but I’m always prepared to develop the project management competencies I need to succeed. Self-awareness We all have limits.