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Enhanced due diligence in banking 

Productivity Land

Enhanced Due Diligence (EDD), also known as Politically Exposed Person (PEP) screening, is a process that banks and other financial institutions must use to identify the risk associated with doing business with foreign individuals. More businesses and governments are requiring enhanced due diligence.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. But they are not the regulatory environment, government standards, or external environmental policies or regulations. Don’t get me started on Enterprise Environmental Factors either.)

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Reviewarticle from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. It’s a less technical method of project management that doesn’t put as much emphasis on task order or scheduling, but rather on balancing resources and keeping them flexible. Kanban Methodology.

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3 Exam Content Outline Domains for the PMP exam

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If you are studying for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, this is the article you need to help you break down and understand the contents of the exam. In this article, we’ll explain what the performance domains are in the exam content outline and give you some examples of what you need to know about each one for the test.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. The History of PRINCE2® PRINCE2® is part of the best practice guidance that came out of the UK Office of Government Commerce. It was renamed PRINCE. The most recent major update came in 2023.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article is for you! Personally, I think employers value work experience over a degree, so a degree in project management, while it will show that you have the technical and soft skills, will not ensure you a job. That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e.