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How to Write a Business Requirements Document (BRD)

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That’s why a business requirements document is so important. To prove this point, let’s define what a business requirements document (BRD) is and what its components are. What Is a Business Requirements Document? The business requirements document highlights what the end result of the project should be.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They might be influenced by market conditions (risk appetite statements might change, for example, if the market suddenly gets a lot more competitive). But they are not the regulatory environment, government standards, or external environmental policies or regulations. They influence how we do the work.

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A Real Project Manager’s Guide to RAID

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Your RAID log is one of the crucial project planning documents that helps you plan and control the work throughout the project lifecycle. Talk to the project team, have some brainstorming sessions, look at past lessons learned documentation and use my list of common project risks to help you get started populating this section of the RAID.

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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

MPUG

A Project Management Methodology is an integral part of project governance. Organizations can choose any project management framework or methodology to establish project governance structure. Project governance is sometimes confused with project management, and many people use these terms interchangeably. Project Governance.

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What Is a Stakeholder? Definitions, Types & Examples

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Stakeholders are very important because they can have a positive or negative influence on the project with their decisions. While every project has stakeholders and those stakeholders can be anyone with influence or that can be influenced by the project. Types of Stakeholders. Stakeholder Examples. Stakeholder Analysis.

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Enterprise Environmental Factors in Project Management

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These can influence the outcome of the project, program or portfolio so they must be managed. That’s why project managers and their teams need to take time to identify enterprise environmental factors that might influence their projects and figure out an action plan to mitigate or respond to them in a timely, effective manner.

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What is Stakeholder-led Project Management?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This book sets out a way to manage stakeholders that many project managers will recognize: Identify and document Analyze Develop strategies Plan approach Engage Watch, listen, react and review. In these projects, stakeholders are identified and communicated with in the ‘normal’ way, but their power and influence is relatively low.