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Women in Project Management: Rachel Mata

Rebel’s Guide to PM

All my previous job experiences had been surrounded by planning, coordinating logistics, and, more than that, getting things done. We should be focusing on enhancing our ability to adapt, adjust to risks, and changes we were not expecting. Rachel, how did you get into project management? It came to me from nowhere. Rachel Mata.

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How to Plan an Event

ProjectManager.com

Venue: The event has to take place somewhere, and that involves logistics management , food and beverages as well as the décor. This will again involve contracts, marketing and logistics. So we have to plan out everything regarding the location, the logistics of that location, food, and beverage, and decorations there.

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Top 10 Variables of a Simple Project Management Software

nTask

Risk Assessment and Management: Project risks are inevitable. You cannot go into ostrich mode when it comes to risk handling – i.e. sinking your head in the sand won’t help. This is exactly why project management software should come equipped with a detailed risk management solution. The problems will still be around you.

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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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Innovation in project management: Inspiration from Dubai

Susanne Madsen

Not only that, Dubai’s goal is to consistently be ranked amongst the top 5 global centres for trade, logistics, tourism and finance. Otherwise the risk of trying something new will seem too high. They are not there yet, but progress is being made. What if we could start all over ?

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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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2021 Challenges and Trends in Pharmaceutical Industry

Epicflow Blog

Some of the risks that pharmaceutical companies have to deal with include: intellectual property theft, cyber espionage and state-sponsored attacks, insider threat, ransomware and phishing. In addition, there have appeared more serious risks in relation to COVID-19 vaccine. logistics . Antimicrobial Resistance .

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