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Review Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice – Thirty Case Studies from around the World

Henny Portman

The book Project Portfolio Management in Theory and Practice – Thirty Case Studies from around the World by Jamal Moustafaev briefly explains project portfolio management by looking at the three pillars of project portfolio management: Project value. value vs. risk). Case studies. Strategic alignment.

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Change management helps when implementing risk responses

Kiron Bondale

A student in a project management class I taught shared the concern that it was very hard for her to get risk responses implemented. Acceptance is a risk response strategy, but project managers are not supposed to just report on accidents, they are expected to prevent them. But there’s only so much that they can do by themselves.

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Ops managers want (and seek) stability so they can manage process performance. Finding case studies of projects There are lots of case studies available to read about projects. Projects vs operations The short answer to the question: “What’s the difference between projects and operations?”

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BEE Methodology Practitioner Course Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, the risk of getting the change aspects wrong can be huge. There is also a comprehensive case study, so if at any point you can’t work out what any particular change management activity should look like, you can check the case study to see how they implemented it.

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Case Study: Rex Materials Group Uses LiquidPlanner to Optimize Entire Value Chain

LiquidPlanner

A New Approach, Process and Work Management Tool. We knew that the ability to generate a ship date when a PO was submitted—with 90-percent on-time performance—would make customers happier and give us a competitive edge, and LiquidPlanner was the least expensive and lowest-risk way to achieve that goal.”. It’s our adaptive methodology.

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5 kinds of Agile bandits: Special Sprints Bandits

Scrum.org

This is counterintuitive to the Agile manifesto, which emphasizes individuals and interactions over processes and tools, and responding to change over following a plan. In Agile, we manage risk not through detailed plans, as in traditional models, but through the continuous delivery of a working product. Enjoy this video?

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How I passed the Google Project Management Certificate in a Week

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, you have to complete a project charter, a risk document, a presentation to executives, write sample emails etc. The case study is realistic and well-put together, you will definitely find it useful if you have not worked on a project end-to-end before. The longest I had to wait was about 18 hours.