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Managing Project Assumptions & Risks

Velociteach

We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Thoughtlessly making assumptions or ignoring risks can lead to critical problems.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Our risks were identified, but a response strategy was never created.

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Why Your Annual Operating Plan Is A Lie and What To Do About It

Leading Agile

Imagine you’re a CIO, CTO, IT Leader, or Finance Manager. It’s difficult to prioritize these requests because there is no consistent definition of value, and nobody believes the business cases anyway. You are given unfunded mandates related to risk, compliance, and cyber security. Everything after that is chaos.

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The Value of an Agile Project Management Office

MPUG

Now imagine that a senior executive starts off his day and decides first to have a quick look at the project dashboard expecting to see metrics such as the current status of projects, earned value indices in terms of money and performances, and top risks. Welcome to the concept of the Project Management Office or PMO. PMO Definition.

Agile 94
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Transformation, Business Architecture, and Scaling

Leading Agile

How do you go up into Portfolio Management? How do you go up into investment management, that kind of a thing? What do you do with planning cadences? And you know, the manifesto had just been written and I was working as a project manager in a company called CheckFree here in Atlanta and squarely like in the PMO.

Agile 141
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Beginner’s Guide to Kanban for Agile Marketing

Digite

Compared to Scrum, Kanban is a young work-management method. They allow teams to visually observe work-in-progress and self-organize, assign their own tasks, and move work from a backlog to complete without direction from a project or line manager. In fact, many Scrum teams use this type of visualization to manage their work.

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Leveraging Agile to Get Predictable

Leading Agile

And so, from how we do governance and how we do project planning and how we do organizational structure, all those kinds of things, right, so there’s this big hop. Because those are the things that fundamentally get in the way how we govern, right, how we deal with cross cutting concerns. We know what we can produce every sprint.

Agile 89