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Premortem on Projects: How to Do It & Why

ProjectManager.com

It’s a meeting after the project has concluded, during which successes and failures are discussed with the project team. Yes, it’s very helpful in setting up your next project to stay on track. But what about if you had one prior to initiating a new project? But what about if you had one prior to initiating a new project?

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Project Brief Template

ProjectManager.com

Whether you’re starting to work on a project plan or need to explain the project in broad terms to your stakeholders, you need a project brief to define all the main points. It’s the best way to inform and communicate the project summary. Download Project Brief Template. What Is a Project Brief Template?

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Predictive Problem-Solving: The Power of Conducting a Premortem

Wrike

At the forefront of this approach is the concept of conducting a premortem analysis, which provides invaluable insights into potential pitfalls and risks before they occur. This requires gathering key stakeholders in a collaborative session where they imagine that the project has already failed.

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A human-centered mindset to project kick-offs (+ 10 techniques to try)

Resource Guru

When projects are won, there’s often a sense of urgency to get going and we end up skipping some of the activities which can prevent a project from being successful. Recently, I helped kick off a multi-agency project with an hour-long session focusing entirely on building relationships and how to build a team charter.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to assess risks, their impacts, and handling strategies for software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. These papers and other resources were retrieved from public sites.