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Types of Risks In Project Management – Are All Risks Equal?

WorkOtter

Risks are common in business. These risks carry uncertainties which pose potential threats to the financial health of the organization. Projects help the business reach objectives and goals, and with each project comes its own set of risks. It’s an unknown and unaccounted-for variable that leads to project failure.

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10 Do’s & Don’ts of Project Cost Management

nTask

Unexpected costs, events, and miscalculations can take your project down the hill in no time. This is where project cost management jumps in. Cost management helps you to mitigate the risk of any surprise costs and budget constraints. What is Project Cost Management?

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Project Assumptions: A Complete Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article, we will discuss the different types of assumptions, their links to other parts of the project, the real reason why you need to have them documented, and how to manage them during the project lifecycle. Here are a few categories of common assumptions and how they may impact your projects. Financial/Budget.

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Impact of Resource Constraints on Project Delivery and How to Overcome Them

LiquidPlanner

Resources, in project management terms, are the people, supplies or equipment needed to get tasks completed. For example, if your project aims to roll out hands-on training to 3,000 factory workers about how to safely use a new piece of equipment, then you are constrained by how many trainers and pieces of demo equipment are available.

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Step-By-Step Guide to Create a Project Management Workflow

WorkOtter

Did you know 39% of organizations don’t provide project management training? That makes it pretty hard to manage or even understand an efficient project management workflow. After all, if you’ve ever worked on a project, you know how important it is to have a plan. Let’s get started!

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What’s in your backlog?

Leading Answers

Risk avoidance and risk reduction activities – Sure, maybe. This product owner manages the backlog, keeping things up to date with the latest product decisions. Here’s a typical backlog showing a combination of features, change requests, bug fixes and a couple of risk reduction activities.   Risks in the Backlog.

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Cost Estimation in Project Management – An Introductory Guide for PMs

nTask

Thus, cost estimation in project management is essential for predicting the project’s scope. The big difference between a project with and without cost estimation is that you’re somehow prepared for the latter as you’d have already predicted the budget constraints in your cost estimation process.