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What Is a Risk Register & How to Create One

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What is a Risk Register? A risk register is a tool in risk management and project management. It is used to identify potential risks in a project or an organization, sometimes to fulfill regulatory compliance but mostly to stay on top of potential issues that can derail intended outcomes.

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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risks matter. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. However, at the beginning of your project when your risk log is empty, it can be a bit of a challenge to think of all the stuff that might need to go on there.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). They influence how we do the work.

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3 Exam Content Outline Domains for the PMP exam

Rebel’s Guide to PM

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The 12 Principles of Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Be a diligent, respectful and caring steward. We can lead by example by acting as a diligent steward for our projects, but I think other managers in the organization need to live by this principle as well. We are using more and more tech tools to get work done. Optimize risk responses. Stewardship.

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I took my first Practitioner course in 2004. Because PRINCE2® is a broad-brush approach, it doesn’t cover technical processes or specific techniques, but it will fit alongside them. I was asked to be one of the reviewers of the PRINCE2 7 manual, so I am very familiar with the content and changes since the last edition.

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Overcoming bias in project management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Since good decision-making is critical for good leadership and guidance, project managers need to know how heuristics (mental disposition) and biases (personal inclinations) influence a project manager’s decisions. His specialty is high-risk projects, where he prevents failure or helps projects to recover from failure.