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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). 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. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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Book review: Risk Happens

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. So what exactly is project risk management? Risk breakdown structures.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One key tool to success is understanding how to use organizational process assets effectively. But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? In this blog post, we’ll take a look at what organizational process assets are, why you would use them in project management and some best practices for utilizing these important tools.

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How To Help Your Team Manage Project Risk

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risk management is a great example. It’s a structured process that happens on every project and outside the project environment too, so it’s a fantastic skill to learn to boost your career and broaden your skills – whatever your job title. Identify project risks. First, identify the project risks. Allocate risk owners.

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Back to Basics: What is the Difference between Process Groups and Phases?

MPUG

I got introduced to formal project management processes through Rational Unified Process (RUP) in the year 2000. While learning RUP, I learned about project management processes, project lifecycle, and phases. There is a fundamental difference between process groups and phases. In figure 1.5

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PMBOK® Seventh Edition Principles and Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

This edition is a principles-based guide as opposed to the process-based guide of the Sixth Edition. In this article, let's look at each principle and why each one matters with respect to managing risks. Build Quality into Processes and Deliverables 9. Optimize Risk Responses 11. Table Of Contents.

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How to Select Your Risk Responses

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This is a guest article by Harry Hall from projectriskcoach.com. Risk management is one of the core knowledge areas for project managers. You’ve identified and assessed your project risks—both threats and opportunities. Now, you are planning your risk responses with your risk owners. Harry Hall.

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