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9 Steps to Managing Risk for Your Projects

LiquidPlanner

The owner should be the person who is most suited to deal with a particular risk and to monitor it. Another valuable part of any risk management process in project management is setting aside time at least once a week to identify new risks and to monitor the progress of all logged items. Assign owners. Regularly review project risks.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. For example, on one project, I had the CFO steering group, and attendees were all SLT (senior leadership team members). Who will get you access to the resources you require?

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Free project management certifications

Moira Alexander

Founded by Harvard University and MIT in 2012, edX is one of the biggest MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) platforms available and offers many project management (PM) courses. You can take individual courses at no charge, and many of them can be accredited towards an edX credential. Related story: 6 ways to be a better project manager ].

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How to manage team conflict (& 5 strategies for conflict resolution)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. I have mentioned some causes of conflict above, but in 2012 I did some research into this at an event. And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it.

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Managing Team Conflict and Strategies for Conflict Resolution

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We challenge leaders, we talk about risk and what might go wrong and we call people out on poor performance through project monitoring and control. I have mentioned some causes of conflict above, but in 2012 I did some research into this at an event. And project managers contribute hugely to that because we go out and look for it.

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Project Manager or Project Leader? What’s the Difference?

Online PM Courses

One way I like to think of the difference between Project Management and Project Leadership is that: Project Management gets things done. Project Leadership makes changes happen. Leadership: guiding and motivating the people around you. People and Project Leadership. But there is more to it than that. Leading Others.

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Requirements Management Panel Discussion – Transcription

MPUG

Edwards currently offers a library of like 50 plus courses focusing on the fields of project management, systems engineering, leadership, business process improvement, and cybersecurity. I mentioned the requirements traceability matrix when it comes to monitoring and controlling. We need to monitor and control our risks.