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How Poor Risk Management Is Hurting Your Program

Project Risk Coach

Poor risk management is costly. Let's look at the cost of poor risk management through the example of Tom Whitley. The Risk Management Mistakes of Tom Whitley The Star Mutual Insurance Company (SMIC) hired Tom Whitley as a project manager to manage information technology projects. But, it doesn't have to be that way.

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Service Request Management in IT: Process & Best Practices

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When someone makes a request in the information technology (IT) world, whatever that might be, there’s a process involved to fulfill that request. This is called a service request and controlling that process is called service request management. It also includes the tools that are used to run this process.

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Organizational Competencies: What They Are and How to Develop Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I worked in the IT team at my old job. We did a fair amount of off-the-shelf software deployments, and we frequently made the point that we were a healthcare company, not a software development firm. I would not have said we had software development as one of our core organizational competencies. Non-technical competencies.

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The 5 Phases of the Construction Process (Templates Included)

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Initiation Phase The initiation phase might be the most important of all five phases as it maps out the approval process for the project and sets everything in place to build. Programming and feasibility are where the planning team defines the project’s objectives and goals. The last step is the construction documentation.

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Product Planning Fundamentals: Develop a Product Plan in 6 Steps

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It also includes ongoing improvements and changes to a product, so the process is never really completed. Product planning utilizes many of the same processes, documents and tools that are used in project management. Our product planning methodology uses six steps to guide you through the entire process.

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Product Development with the Stage-Gate® Process (Part 3): Procedure and Structure

Inloox

In the last parts of our blog series on innovation management with the Stage-Gate® process, we looked at the basics such as the definition, strengths and weaknesses, and the basic principles. Procedure Stage-Gate® process. Example: Idea-to-Launch model. The sections are called stages and the control points are called gates.

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Ultimate Guide to Business Process Management (BPM)

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That’s what business process management is all about. Business process management looks at the processes a company employs to deliver its goods or services to its customers. What Is Business Process Management (BPM)? BPM designs, automates, executes, controls, measures and optimizes business processes. Learn more.

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