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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. LeRoy Ward, PMP , PgMP, and PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award winner, when I asked him for his view. How to plan a fixed date project. What is a fixed date project?

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PMI-RMP: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS FOR 2021

Project Risk Coach

The PMI Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP)® is one of the eight PMI certifications. Individuals with this certification possess specialized knowledge and expertise in planning for risk management, identifying risks, evaluating risks, developing and implement risk responses, and monitoring risks.

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How To Take A Sideways Step In The Job Market

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For a project manager, it often looks like this. Start on project support and small projects, manage bigger and bigger projects, then become a program manager — a role that, according to salary survey data from Arras People, pays more. Read next: How to plan to leave your job. The Reasons to Consider Lateral Moves.

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Why Your Company Needs a Risk Management Framework

Techno-PM

Managing a company comes with many responsibilities. Since a business requires different operations to function smoothly, it is crucial to ensure you have the proper tools to identify, remove, and minimise organisational risks. Risk Management Framework (RMF) provides your business security, efficiency, and effectiveness.

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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. Making these decisions in the presence Uncertainty ?

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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the first things that project managers learn on training courses is that a project has a start, a middle and an end. Don’t be the project manager that lets a project go on and on by accepting every scope change and picking up all the operational work as well as the requests for new functionality, additions or improvements.