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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.

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Wicked Problem Solving Course Review (PMI)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project management has so many challenges to solve every day, so having a toolbox of techniques (and the right attitude) will help you deliver projects successfully. Given that it deals with the big problems facing organizations, I think the course is best for senior project managers, program managers, and portfolio leaders.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Project execution’s key purpose is to complete the work defined in the project management plan and to meet key project objectives. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people. When you’re executing a project, you need to manage a lot of things: resources, costs, schedule and more.

Executing 500
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Ask a PM: How to Get Proper Estimates

LiquidPlanner

Dear Elizabeth: I work in a technical team as a project manager. You might not need to document this granularity on your work breakdown structure, but your team could go through the exercise to split out tasks into their component parts. Where you can’t remove the uncertainty, add this as a risk to your project risk register.

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12 Good Reasons You Are Struggling With Small Projects

Project Risk Coach

I'd like to give a few brief reasons why project managers struggle with small projects. In general, smaller projects have less risk. This exercise allows the team to understand the context of the project. Project managers are assigned projects at the last minute with a tight deadline. When is a change order required?

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Google Project Management: Professional Certificate Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Are you ready to dive into my Google Project Management: Professional Certificate review? I’ve done a lot of project management training in my 20+ years as a project manager, and those courses helped me understand the skills, tools and techniques required to succeed leading projects.

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Top 10 Reasons for Project Failure

ProjectManager.com

There are many ways to avoid project failure, one of which is using project management software. ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that empowers teams to plan, manage and track projects in real time. ProjectManager has Gantt charts to plan, manage and track projects in real time. Learn more.

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