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Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

Velociteach

Constraints are things that limit our projects. Budgets, timelines, and agreements are familiar sources. For example, the projects must be delivered by X date. For example, IF the project costs more than planned, THEN there are multiple potential impacts. Constraints also create risks.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

Constraints are things that limit our projects. Budgets, timelines, and agreements are familiar sources. For example, the projects must be delivered by a certain date. For example, IF the project costs more than planned, THEN there are multiple potential impacts. Constraints also create risks.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Bottleneck: In project management terms, a bottleneck is any constraint that restricts the movement of a process. With this approach, the project's cost and/or duration are calculated by adding the cost/duration of all its constituent activities. Budget : The sum total of all the money allocated for a project.

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Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack

Herding Cats

Managing Cost, Schedule, & Technical Performance Risk Is The Basis Of Good Project Management. Risk management is essential to the success of any significant project. Certain information about key project cost, performance, and schedule attributes are often unknown until the project is underway.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Surviving the Matrix Organization , The common picture of the project manager in a matrixed organization is of a frustrated diplomat struggling to cajole the functional departments into performing the work on schedule and within budget. Project and Program Management Symposium, Canberra, Australia, 2018.

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

But delivering as quickly as [inaudible 00:17:09], get it done right now, minimizing project costs, cheap, right? Development approaches that are consistent with project deliverables. What’s deliverable, cadence, project phase? And what are those dots? Optimizing the value delivered. It makes sense.

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