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How to Manage Fixed Date Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Hitting the date is compulsory, which means we can’t plan the project as we would normally do using best practice scheduling techniques. Projects with fixed end dates present a different type of planning challenge for project managers. Instead of being able to analyze and plan, you are told what to do and when to do it by.

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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.

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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. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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How to Navigate the Project Environment Even if You’re New to Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

Enhanced decision-making, risk mitigation, resource optimization, and stakeholder satisfaction that propel your projects to new heights of success and recognition. Regulatory requirements are not optional; alignment with them should always be a vital part of your risk management. The result?

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Complete Collection of Project Management Statistics 2015

Wrike

3% use PRINCE2. [4]. 64% of organizations say they frequently conduct risk management. [6]. Managing small, low-risk projects. Managing medium-size, moderate-risk projects. 68% use the project plan documentation. Between 2010 and 2020, 15.7 Estimated Project-Oriented Job Openings 2010-2020: .

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Misunderstanding Making Decisions in the Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

Our knowledge of this world - the planned and actual behaviors of the project. The risk is created when we have not accounted for this natural variances in our management plan for the project. Dealing with Aleatory (irreducible) uncertainty and the resulting risk requires we have margin.

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Critical Success Factors in Multi-Project Management

Epicflow Blog

However, we can point out some more or less versatile CFSs: A project manager’s competence; Project team members’ competences; Clearly defined project goals; Senior management support; Effective planning; Proper risk management, etc. [2]. It’s also critically important to plan for uncertainty.