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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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How to Manage a Cross-Functional Team: Tools and Strategies

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Here are key strategies to successfully manage a cross-functional team. Establish Cross-Functional Team Leadership While its not a prerequisite to have one person lead a cross-functional team, the benefits outweigh the risks. Without that leader, theres a greater risk of a rudderless ship that never makes it to the dock.

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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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Risk Mitigation Plan: Definition & Top Strategies

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Risk is always present. If we were to try and avoid all risks, it would be paralyzing—not to mention impossible. As you might imagine, there’s a process in project management that addresses risk and how to deal with it. It’s called risk mitigation. No project plan is complete without a solid risk mitigation plan.

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A Quick Guide to KPI Dashboards (Examples and Templates Included)

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Executing a plan, whether a project or a larger organizational strategy, is pointless without monitoring its progress and performance. Expecting everything to fall into place ignores inevitable risks and changes when abstract plans live in the real world. This is why managers use a KPI dashboard to stay on track.

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Resource Analysis in Project Management: Steps & Free Templates

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Project managers monitor resource rates and analyze resource utilization to make informed decisions on balancing workload to keep teams working at capacity, address shortages to ensure that resources are available when and where they’re needed and enhance efficiency.

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Organizational Project Management (OPM) Basics

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Organizations have strategies to achieve their long-term goals, whether that’s to increase sales, launch a new product or build new facilities. This is done by a variety of skills and techniques, led by a project manager and includes defining project scope, identifying deliverables, managing risks and effective communication across teams.

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