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The Risk Management Process in Project Management

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When you start the planning process for a project, one of the first things you need to think about is: what can go wrong? It sounds negative, but pragmatic project managers know this type of thinking is preventative. Issues will inevitably come up, and you need a mitigation strategy in place to know how to manage risks on your project.

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Risk Mitigation in Project Management

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Risk is something every leader knows well. We all need to become comfortable with some risks. We are never going to eliminate all risks. What Is Risk Mitigation? It involves a process that we’ll explore in a moment but basically addresses the top risks in order to fully protect the project. Learn more.

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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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What are the Risk Management Roles in Projects and Programs?

Project Risk Coach

As a project manager, you constantly juggle a million tasks at once. This article will provide clear guidance on how to define and assign risk management roles and responsibilities for projects and programs. Ensuring that all of the risks are addressed can be a daunting task, particularly for larger, complex projects.

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Successful Change Management with Enterprise Risk Management

Speaker: William Hord, Vice President of ERM Services

A well-defined change management process is critical to minimizing the impact that change has on your organization. Leveraging the data that your ERM program already contains is an effective way to help create and manage the overall change management process within your organization. Organize ERM strategy, operations, and data.

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Tactical Planning: Creating a Tactical Plan for Your Business

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Tactical planning is the practical counterpoint to strategic planning, which describes the overall direction of an organization. Tactical planning tells you how to get there. This concept is an important part of project portfolio management (PPM) and project management offices (PMOs). What Is Tactical Planning?

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Book Review: A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risk meetings don’t have to be boring, although in my experience they often are. A Short Guide to Facilitating Risk Management is a book that specifically addresses how to get the best out of your risk management meetings. The benefits of risk management. Great advice for risk meetings.

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Driving Business Impact for PMs

Speaker: Jon Harmer, Product Manager for Google Cloud

You will deepen your understanding of your customers and their needs as well as identifying and de-risking the different kinds of hypotheses built into your roadmap. Grow your user empathy skills: Better understand users and the problem space they are working in through Journey Maps that are customized for Product Managers.