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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

As such, you may have a bit more influence on these if appropriate actions are taken early. This could be due to staffing levels or other projects being staffed instead due to higher business priority. External risks can occur due to a variety of factors, often caused by influences more outside of our immediate control.

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What Makes A Good Product Owner?

Scrum.org

This includes training, technical support, and preparation for new releases. It is no surprise that the researchers conclude that “Product Owners perform a wide range of challenging activities which require experience and high-status in order to be able to exert influence”. Gatekeeper : Approving completed items for a release.

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Leveraging Evidence-Based Management and Achieving Organizational Change through Larman’s Laws

Scrum.org

Often, these changes are heralded as signs of progress – restructuring teams, introducing groundbreaking technology, or rolling out new policies. You've introduced new tech. It's like choosing between buying a car because it's your favorite color versus reading its reviews and performance metrics.

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In-Depth: The Evidence-Based Business Case For Agile

Scrum.org

Another approach is to track many organizations over time as they adopt Agile methodologies, while also measuring anything else that could influence their results other than agility itself. So we went to Google Scholar and searched for review articles. 2014 ; Young & Jordan, 2008 ; Russo, 2021 ). Cardozo et. 2010, April).

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Summary of Capabilities Based Planning

Herding Cats

Capabilities-based planning enables the enterprise to identify business and technical needs, allocate resources, and track activities and outcomes. . This approach assures business value is connected with the strategy not just measures of the passage or time and consumption of money and the production of technical features. .

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Creating a Risk Register: All You Need to Know

Epicflow Blog

It allows project managers to identify possible risks, track them, and take timely measures to mitigate their negative influence. A risk log should be shared with all project stakeholders and team members and reviewed at every team meeting not to miss any important updates. . Let’s explore how a risk register should be created.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In every case, you should have people on the group who understand the project (or who can be brought up to speed) and who have influence and interest in the outcomes. Action review and next steps. You may also have to train your project sponsor in the technical details of the project to enable them to make appropriate decisions.