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Risk Analysis 101: How to Analyze Project Risk

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Before you’re able to analyze the risk in your project, you have to acknowledge that risk is going to happen in your project. By planning for risks, you begin the process of knowing how to identify, monitor and close out risks when they show up in your project. Definition of Risk.

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What Is the Project Life Cycle?

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There are many different types of projects, but interestingly, they all have one thing in common. They all go through the same cycle, known as the project life cycle, or project management life cycle. What Is the Project Life Cycle? The post What Is the Project Life Cycle?

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What Is Project Risk? 7 Project Risks to Track

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Controlling risk is one of the most important areas of project management. Project managers need to know how to identify, track and mitigate project risk. Let’s learn what is project risk, some common examples and how can you manage it. What Is Project Risk? Get started for free today.

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Using a Risk Assessment Matrix for a Qualitative Risk Analysis

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All projects have risks, but not all risks are the same. There are many potential risks that can affect a project and you need to have a risk management process in place to manage them. This risk management process consists of risk identification, assessment, mitigation and monitoring.

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Program Manager vs. Project Manager: What’s the Difference?

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Resource management: A program manager must be able to allocate, reallocate and keep track of program resources across projects. Risk management: A program manager is responsible for the success or failure of a program. That’s why this role requires excellent risk management skills. What Is a Project Manager?

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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

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What Is a Project Manager? A project manager is a leader who oversees cross functional teams through the project life cycle to guarantee a successful project completion. Project managers are in charge of managing teams during the initiating, planning, scheduling, monitoring and closing phases of a project.

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Procurement Management & The Project Manager’s Role In The Project Life Cycle

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It affects our projects, and yet we often aren’t the ones sourcing the vendors and suppliers that will work on our projects. It’s also a major source of risk—what happens to your project when the developer you procured drops off the face of the earth? […].