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Uncovering the Benefits of Clear Risk Statements

Project Risk Coach

Clarity can help project teams gain better insight into potential threats and opportunities. Greater clarity makes communication easier between stakeholders as everyone better understands the associated risks and potential benefits involved in decision-making processes. Create Better Risk Responses Risk statements drive our responses.

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7 Hidden dangers of project management (Or why even well-planned projects sometimes fail)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

During a company integration program, customer service levels dropped by 25-50% because the team management focused their efforts on reorganizing and changing employees’ roles and responsibilities, all with “the best of intentions”. Consequently, the difference in corporate culture led to numerous issues causing anxiety among team members.

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Exploring Estimation Approaches: What is the Right Fit for Scrum Teams!

Scrum.org

Estimation is a complementary practice Scrum Teams use in Product D evelopment. The purpose of estimation is to provide a rough idea of how much effort, time, and budget are needed to complete specific features or PBI- Product Backlog Item of the product. Some other teams may use animal sizes (Rat, Cat, Dog, Horse, Elephant etc.)

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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. Are there benefits to developing a capital improvement plan? A capital improvement plan (CIP) is used by organizations to make smart budgeting decisions on which large projects or purchases to pursue. However, the capital improvement plan is aligned with the annual budget.

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5 Reasons Engineers Need to Develop Project Management Skills

LiquidPlanner

cited that $122 million was wasted for every $1 billion invested due to poor project performance. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing, however, if it isn’t bolstered with legitimate study of project management fundamentals, then it can become a bad thing in the right situation.

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How Organisations Can Set up New Project Leaders for Success

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The latter requires that leaders be globally fluent and defend against biases, strive to build more cohesive teams, be proactive, scout opportunities for the individuals they lead and help them grow. The evaluation of the new leaders should dictate the subject matter and process of the training.

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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That doesn’t make you a project manager, it makes you an operational team leader – although you could find that there is a useful long-term product management role for you if you prefer this way of working. have poor management. have poor oversight; and. However, zombie projects are not operational, day-to-day work.