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12 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

Mike was a functional project manager in an organization where I managed a PMO. But his projects were trending in the wrong direction and his manager was not happy with Mike's performance. In a one-on-one meeting, I asked Mike how he was identifying, analyzing, and managing his risks. Frankly, he did not know how.

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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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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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4 Tips for Developing a Risk Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

Think about the future so you can make better decisions in the present. Let’s talk about how to plan your risk management. First Things First Some people think of risk management plans in the wrong way. Risk management plans are not a list of risks and how you plan to respond.

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Project Presentations: How to Prepare and Deliver a Project Presentation

ProjectManager.com

Can anything make a project manager’s heart sink faster than being told that they need to give a project presentation to the board of directors? If you haven’t come across these presentation requests from senior managers yet, you will! What Is a Project Presentation? The pressure. The responsibility.

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Cost Benefit Analysis for Projects – A Step-by-Step Guide

ProjectManager.com

When managing a project, one is required to make a lot of key decisions. Because of the high stakes, good managers don’t just make decisions based on gut instinct. They prefer to minimize risk to the best of their ability and act only when there is more certainty than uncertainty. What Is Cost Benefit Analysis?

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Risk Management (3) - The Risk Catalog

Inloox

Introduction: The risk catalog The risk catalog - also called risk inventory - can serve as a basis for a risk analysis or the FMEA method. A risk catalog represents a structured compilation of potential project risk events. Visual presentation of stakeholder information.