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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

In this independent review, I’ll share: Whether the course is really worth it (I think so) Why it’s good for experienced project and change management practitioners Who shouldn’t do the course? Those questions are quite helpful on a smaller scale, too, for example dealing with project risk or unpicking a difficult project issue.

PMI 426
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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

Manage those communications by finding how often they want to be updated and how they prefer to get those updates. Conduct Team-Building Exercises. Team-building exercises is a way to upstart trust, especially for new teams that don’t have a lot of shared experience. Poor change management. Lackluster leadership.

Executing 499
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12 Good Reasons You Are Struggling With Small Projects

Project Risk Coach

In general, smaller projects have less risk. This exercise allows the team to understand the context of the project. Rather than discussing the project with stakeholders and documenting the business case, problems, goals, and deliverables, the project manager hits the ground running. Later, stakeholders demand costly changes.

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Ask a PM: How to Get Proper Estimates

LiquidPlanner

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. Can you break the work down even further? Remove the Uncertainty.

Estimate 602
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Google Project Management: Professional Certificate Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The courses are wide-ranging and cover everything from project management methods including agile methods, risk management, the project life cycle, project management tools, project implementation and change management. There are other exercises to do as well, such as reflection exercises.

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How To Manage Constantly Changing Requirements

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This exercise will give you a baseline for the project’s requirements. Any changes after this need to be assessed and taken through the change control process. Now you have a baseline of project requirements, you need to know what to do should you be asked to make another change. . Project risks. Set expectations.