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What Is a Risk Register & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

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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A Real Project Manager’s Guide to RAID

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In project management, RAID is an acronym for: Risks Assumptions Issues Dependencies These are key things to track as a project manager. Risks Risks are things that might affect your project if they happen. We generally think of risks as things that could cause the project to go wrong, but risk could also be something positive.

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Project Management Checklist for the Modern Agency [download]

Function Point

Without a strong agency project management process, even the most talented creatives suffer from poor time management, lack of project clarity and confusion, leaving agency leaders to risk missed deadlines, scope creep and refusal to pay. Here’s how. This will be affected by your project timeline, budget, scope of work, goals, and objectives.

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Project Communication Plan Template [Free Download]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The one you’ll download (enter your email at the end of this article) has some lines in as a sample communications plan, but take those out once you see how it works and put your own events in. Through the magic of the internet, the download of the XLSX spreadsheet will start automatically, so there’s no waiting around for an email from me.

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Importance of Scenario Planning and Analysis in Business

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By using regular and consistent scenario planning, organizations can better allocate resources successfully, mitigate risk and decrease production costs. Operationa l scenario planning reviews all potential outcomes of a certain decision and how they can influence the business or project.

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Enterprise Environmental Factors in Project Management

ProjectManager.com

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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15 Non-Academic Project Management Books to Earn PDUs

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Identifying and Managing Project Risk (4 th Ed) Author: Tom Kendrick. Identifying and Managing Project Risk is a big read at over 300 pages. There are some sections in it that cover enterprise risk management which you could justifiably claim in the Business Acumen section. PDU claim: 8 hours. PDU claim: 2 hours. Get the ebook.

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