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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What you need is adequate governance for the project. What is a project board? Call your meetings anything you like.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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Unlocking ITIL4: Defining Value and Navigating Career Growth

The IIL Blog

To bring the analogy to life with ITIL, to deliver effective and valuable services you need all the component parts of the service value system (including the practices like incident management, change enablement) to make it happen. Whether starting out in IT or a seasoned professional, this certification is beneficial to all. In short, no.

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How has project management changed?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We aren’t managing projects now in the same way that people managed projects years ago. The approaches taken by many companies and professional bodies to managing projects are different now to when I first started out in the field in 2000ish. How long has project management been around? Technology.

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Beware of the Unintended Consequences of Incentive Plans.

Scrum.org

Paul Nisbet, said, "I find fault with a {pay} plan that tends to motivate management to do whatever is necessary to raise the stock price in the short term, potentially at the expense of market share in the longer term." [i] AIG using its triple-A rating to provide credit protection to banks against mortgage-backed securities (derivatives).

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Contingency Plan in Project Management

ActiveCollab

Smart managers are always on the lookout, focusing on hidden risks that can sidetrack any project or business. Without a contingency plan, there is no risk management recovery plan. This article will define a contingency plan in business management and what it means. WHAT IS A PROJECT CONTINGENCY?

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.