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Change management helps when implementing risk responses

Kiron Bondale

MARCH 3, 2019

A student in a project management class I taught shared the concern that it was very hard for her to get risk responses implemented. Acceptance is a risk response strategy, but project managers are not supposed to just report on accidents, they are expected to prevent them.

Risk Management

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Skills analysis: Identify your skills and find and fill knowledge gaps

Project Accelerator News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Introduction Starting a project management role can involve a change in career. You might have started out in a more technical or specialised role and progressed up the chain or moved into project management after gaining skills in another industry. It is also important not to underestimate the skills that you already have.

Underperforming Technical Team

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Why you need to engage stakeholders (and how to do it well)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

AUGUST 9, 2021

Early on in my career, I had a call from the post room manager. We define it like this: The systematic identification, analysis, planning and implementation of actions designed to influence stakeholders. You probably don’t need to be told of the risks of not engaging stakeholders. She was confused – and angry.

Influencer

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5 Tips to Build a Harmonious Project Team in 2023

LiquidPlanner

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Think again.

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3 Biggest Causes Of Project Failure

Ganttic

MAY 6, 2018

According to the research done by Project Management Institute , more projects are actually failing and it’s causing us to lose time and money. However, the analysis of the two incidents shows that both of them could have been avoided using the same resource management and project leading principles. Project failure. Every time.

Underperforming Technical Team

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Advertising agency workflows: 11 steps to building better processes

Resource Guru

JULY 19, 2023

billboards and magazines) and broadcast (i.e., Today we’ll cover: Our expert roll call Expect actionable insights from the following agency veterans: Shantal Gonzalez , experienced Director of Project Management for leading agencies like MRM. Without sacrificing your team’s health and risking agency burnout. H3: Step 4.

Process

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The Best Project Management Blogs for 2019

Online PM Courses

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

When we did our roundup of the 50 best Project Management Blogs in 2017 it quickly became one of our most popular posts. You folks do like reading about project management! So, here then is our list of the 52 best Project Management Blogs for 2019. How do People Consume Project Management Blogs? And that’s great.

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In-Depth: What a Social Systems Perspective Teaches us About Change

Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2020

The idea of the organization as a machine has become so ingrained and pervasive in management practices and theories in the past fifty years, that it is hard to even be aware of it. and attributes much of it to scientific management. The most significant criticism of scientific management?—?and

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Expert Tips on Lessons Learned [Video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 18, 2017

I worked in safety reporting, and then I moved to change project management, and then I worked as a risk and value analyst on major project division within Network Rail. A lot of the time, I noticed that there’s this desire in the project management community to get things done. Thank you for having me here. Absolutely.

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Project Management Software Comparison: A Strategic View

The Strategic Project Manager

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This post takes a strategic view of the project management software landscape. Finally it identifies project management implications by offering 5 top considerations for a project manager. Finally it identifies project management implications by offering 5 top considerations for a project manager.

Software Review

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80+ Awesome Online Resources for Project Managers

Wrike

APRIL 12, 2017

Where can you go to talk Gantt charts, work breakdown structures, and Agile workflows to your heart’s content with other project management aficionados? There’s a treasure trove of valuable information available online for anyone looking to sharpen their project management skills. . Essentials of Project Management Series – PMI.

Certification

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The Urge to Strangle(The Strangler Pattern)

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Business agility means having the capability to “turn on a dime” at low cost and with low risk, to drive innovation, respond to market changes, and overcome the competition. Mid-level IT managers compete to get their projects approved and funded. Unofficial IT’s risks and costs.

Technical Review

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

OCTOBER 3, 2023

I came out of project management, like I said, PMI ACP, all that kind of stuff. Well then, the project managers come in and they start controlling us and telling us what to do and making us attend to their Gantt charts and their estimates and all that kind of stuff. There’s managers and there’s hierarchy in that regard.

Governance

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Webinar Recap: Those darn Risk Register boxes! What really goes in there?

MPUG

APRIL 16, 2021

Please find below a transcription of the audio portion of Carl Pritchard’s session, Those darn Risk Register boxes! Kyle: Hello everyone and welcome to today’s MPUG webinar, Those Darn Risk Register Boxes! I want to welcome you because I’m the risk guy. I’ve been PMI’s risk guy.

Risk

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Board Meeting Agenda and Best Practices

Appfluence

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Balance the Success Narrative with Potential Risks. Goldberg reminded the two that they should be careful how they manage success and expectations: There are two ways to crash a plane. This cohesive discussion and analysis is given to board members several days in advance and distributed to the top ninety executives as well.

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Webinar Recap: Winning Presentation Skills

MPUG

JANUARY 30, 2020

Carl is the author of seven project management books and co-produced The Audio PMP Prep: Conversations on Passing the PMP Exam. He is the US correspondent for the British project management magazine, Project Manager Today, and serves on the board of directors for projectconnections.com. Carl Pritchard: Yeah.

PMI

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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

MAY 7, 2019

One of our clients, a retired USAF Col Program Manager at an NNSA Weapons Testing Site has a statement that is applicable here: If you lack academic basis and validated experience, your advice is simply unsubstantiated opinion without any basis in fact or principle. Flint, School of Management, Working Paper Series, September 2005.”.

Estimate

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. Analysis of Empirical Software Effort Estimation Models,” Saleem Basha and Dhavachelvan P, (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security , Vol. Armour, Communications of the ACM , January 2014, Vol.