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Skills Of A CEO – Within Reach Of A Strategic PM?

The Strategic Project Manager

Decision-Making – CEOs must evaluate complex situations, weigh risks, and make sound judgments that align with the company’s objectives. Risk Management – Understanding and managing risks is a key aspect of strategy, as well as project management.

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PM, CEM, and Covid-19: Reflections

MPUG

Personally, I never paid enough heed to Disaster Planning and Risk Management until after leaving the USA and becoming a PM nomad , but once I was out in the world, it became clear that I had to do much better. Any project manager needs to know their risk landscape, and the pandemic brings a whole different dimension to that landscape.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Risk issues that can be identified early in the program, which will potentially impact the program later, termed Known Unknowns and can be alleviated with good risk management. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to manage the risk encountered on software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Risk Management is essential for development and production programs.

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Top Project Management Conferences in 2020

Epicflow Blog

The list of international events presented in this paper involves the ones covering not only project and portfolio management challenges but also relevant topics of construction, engineering, product development, and more. Willing to attend a project management conference in 2020? Pricing: available upon request.

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Top Project Management Conferences in 2020

Epicflow Blog

The list of international events presented in this paper involves the ones covering not only project and portfolio management challenges but also relevant topics of construction, engineering, product development, and more. Willing to attend a project management conference in 2020? Pricing: available upon request.

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How to Manage Stakeholder Engagement: 15 Practical Strategies

PM Basics

However, you have made a lot of them: You gave away your schedule slack, maybe some risk reserves and, therefore, increased a risk level for the project. Moreover, the project is at significant risk. Absence Blindness makes risk management , prevention in quality management , and process improvements less appealing.