Project Risk Coach

JANUARY 16, 2017

Improve buy-in and support for your project budgets Do you ever feel like the Lone Ranger when trying to improve cost estimates? Many project managers are left to their own devices when estimating projects. So, how can we improve our cost estimates? 3 Techniques to Improve Cost Estimates. You’re not alone.

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Kiron Bondale

JULY 3, 2016

You are assigned to manage a project and before you or your team have had an opportunity to start to chip away at the looming mountain of uncertainty, you get put on the spot to provide a cost or schedule estimate by your project sponsor or some other stakeholder. Sometimes we see an oscillation between these outcomes. No be there.

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Project Risk Coach

APRIL 18, 2021

One of the reasons that project managers fail to properly estimate their projects is they miss key activities when developing their schedules. One of the most powerful tools for this exercise is the work breakdown structure (WBS) which is a hierarchical decomposition of the scope of work. Why does this happen?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 28, 2023

ProjectManager is award-winning project management software that has resource management tools to keep teams productive without risking burnout and poor morale. Estimate the Resources That You Need Resources aren’t only people, but raw materials, equipment and anything else that the team needs to accomplish the task assigned to them.

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ProjectManager.com

AUGUST 22, 2023

Use Gantt charts to accurately plan, real-time dashboards to analyze live data and other features to manage tasks, risk, resources and more. Fostering collaboration through project management tools , team-building exercises and other tools and techniques will drive productivity. Without a project plan, you’re risking failure.

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ProjectManager.com

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

An event budget is the estimated costs associated with putting on an event. Prices for things change and there’s an inherent risk in putting together an event that can impact your budget. Estimate Fixed & Variable Costs. If your event budget is wrong, that’s even worse; you might not be able to pay vendors or speakers.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 3, 2023

I want you to create a schedule, name the exercises, and point to sources where I can learn more about the suggested activities. Can you be more specific regarding the exercises for lessons 4 to 7? Please suggest what kind of exercises best advance the respective lesson topic for the students.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Plenty of teams still use hourly estimates for complex work. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. Relative estimation: takes less time, focuses on team collaboration i.o. Think risk, effort, complexity.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 25, 2020

Anchoring occurs when a project manager adjusts an estimate closer to a number she previously heard or saw. ” Even if the project manager disbelieves the two-week estimate, she would be unlikely to stick to her two-month plan.

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MPUG

JUNE 6, 2022

But, how does all of this fit into Risk Management? Risk Managers don’t toss coins or calculate heads/tails in an experiment. Probability Distribution and Risk Management. With the above basics, let’s consider another example to understand probability distribution from the perspective of risk management.

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Scrum.org

MAY 15, 2023

Explain the benefits and drawbacks of different estimation techniques. Identify risks & dependencies for following feature: [Your feature]. Your suggestions include surveys, talks, interviews, team meetings, games, exercises, or other parties like stakeholders or line managers, and other useful practices. Design a Sprint board.

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Project Risk Coach

JUNE 24, 2019

In general, smaller projects have less risk. This exercise allows the team to understand the context of the project. This exercise will provide a good foundation and reduce the changes later in the project. You are not performing project risk management. Yes, smaller projects typically have less risk.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

OCTOBER 7, 2023

Submit your emails in a Google Doc with the settings set to public so anyone can read it – otherwise you risk your peer reviewer not being able to give your project documents any marks at all. Next, fill in the time estimates for project tasks. However thorough this case study, it’s only that: a desk-based exercise.

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ProjectManager.com

JULY 5, 2022

Discern the risks and issues associated with each solution. Now, it’s not just an exercise to appease senior leadership. Once you have all the tasks collected, estimate how long it will take to complete each one. Make a timeline for the project by estimating how long it will take to get each task completed.

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Scrum.org

AUGUST 28, 2023

By carefully choosing which features to deliver first, the Product Owner can maximize the value that your product delivers while minimizing the risk of investing resources in features that may not resonate with your audience. Confidence: Assess how confident you are in your estimates for reach and impact.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

MAY 10, 2022

In turn, you may put more and more pressure on your team to speed up – risking cutting corners and delivering a low quality product that is not fit for purpose. Given all their experience, they should be able to come up with some realistic estimates for time frames for all the tasks on the plan.

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Workamajig

JUNE 7, 2018

Every project has some risk of failure. This guide on project risk management will help you understand and manage risks better. If there is one thing you can be certain about in project management, it's this: Every project carries some risk. In this guide, I'll share X critical tips for acing project risk management.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JULY 31, 2020

In turn, you may put more and more pressure on your team to speed up – risking cutting corners and delivering a low quality product that is not fit for purpose. Given all their experience, they should be able to come up with some realistic estimates for time frames for all the tasks on the plan.

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Scrum.org

MAY 8, 2023

Product Backlog refinement : The Product Owner and Developers collaborate to refine, estimate, and order the Product Backlog items based on value, risk, and dependencies. Scope adjustments : Developers may discover that a Product Backlog item is more complex than initially estimated, requiring additional effort or time.

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Scrum.org

APRIL 17, 2023

So in March 2023, I embarked on a non-representative research exercise to learn how organizations misuse Jira from a team perspective as I wanted to understand Jira anti-patterns. Risk aversion : Organizations may be risk-averse and believe tighter controls will help minimize risks and prevent project failures.

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Scrum.org

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Product Backlog Creation and Estimation. That should be a continuous exercise. Otherwise, the risk of allocating resources on work items, that may never make into a Sprint Backlog, becomes too high. Is it a joint team effort or is the Product Owner writing the user stories and the team estimates them?

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Scrum.org

MARCH 8, 2021

The trial day is an expensive exercise and should not be wasted. If you do that, you might risk ending up choosing someone who is comfortable with “doing Agile by the book”. Good exercises for hands-on learnings are: A. Thirty minutes to prepare for the exercise should be sufficient. Have a Trial Day.

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Project Risk Coach

OCTOBER 10, 2016

The best project managers know how to blend their knowledge in different areas such as scope management, cost management, and risk management. Imagine a project manager, Jane, leading a work breakdown structure exercise (WBS) with her project team resulting in work packages or activities. Do you see the power of integration management?

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ProjectManager.com

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Don’t forget to include a risk management plan. Budget: This is an estimate of everything in your plan and what it will cost to complete the project over the scheduled time allotted. Create a Schedule: Make a timeline for the project by estimating how long it will take to get each task completed. Then figure out its feasibility.

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LiquidPlanner

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Complete a project management review and lessons learned exercise (more on that below). A project review can also be called a retrospective, a lessons learned exercise, a post-mortem… they all mean similar things and have the purpose of reflecting and learning. A list of any open issues or risks that need further attention.

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Planio

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Understanding trends and risks. A forward-looking competitive analysis helps you stay ahead of any future trends and identify on-the-horizon risks to your organization. Your product’s benefits should fix the problem statements of your target market, otherwise, you’re at risk of a poor product-market fit.

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Scrum.org

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Roadmap planning—as portfolio planning—is a continuous exercise. That should be a continuous exercise. Otherwise, the risk of allocating resources on work items, that may never make into a Sprint Backlog, becomes too high. Is it a joint team effort or is the Product Owner writing the user stories and the team estimates them?

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LiquidPlanner

MAY 9, 2022

They assumed that their observations would hold true during future training exercises or combat. . An effective hands-on team-player, James is also an acclaimed writer and speaker on topics concerning project risk management, data analytics, data science, including digital disruption in the engineering and construction sector.

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Strategy Execution | PMO Perspectives

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The practices we implement need to add value rather than being a ticking boxing exercise. Risk management, for instance, has little value if all we do is log the risks and assign ownership and mitigating actions, without subsequently following up and taking these risks into consideration when planning, estimating and executing the project.

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LiquidPlanner

AUGUST 23, 2018

To answer the “ how long ” question, we have to plan the project, define tasks and gather estimates from the team. When you estimate each task’s duration and cost, do you: Ask a bunch of experts. Use a similar project’s estimates. Spend more time building a bottom-up estimate? How long will the tasks take?

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Software Review Estimate Budget Defining 158

The Lazy Project Manager

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

But again, it is a rough estimate that is needed for this exercise. And finally, estimates of disruption ratio percentage (use the 20% provided if you don’t have a true idea of your own organisations percentage) and failure factor ratio percentage but only for the growth projects.

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

APRIL 5, 2023

For example, you have to complete a project charter, a risk document, a presentation to executives, write sample emails etc. There are two exercises where you have to write emails and I uploaded the wrong email file for an assignment. Most tests require 80% or more to pass. I made this mistake once myself.

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PM Basics

OCTOBER 2, 2018

He might point out some risks in estimation and real-life benefits. What risks do you see? Here you will need to exercise the ability to analyze the feedback. All of these helps you to identify risks. So, I talked with a department manager. She helped me with some hints on what projects to visit. What’s next?

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Rebel’s Guide to PM

JUNE 30, 2020

If you don’t talk about problems then you risk hitting your manager with bad news. Not doing the exercise to find out what lessons the team learned when a piece of work is done means you are unable to learn from your mistakes. They make up their own estimates based on how long they think things will take. Managers meddle.

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Leading Answers

MARCH 7, 2019

Yet when projects use new (to us) technology and tackle problems our organizations have not solved before, then risk, uncertainty, and rates of change will be high. Designing something is typically a consensus-gathering and problem-solving exercise. These work types often change depending on which phase of a project we are working on.

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Software Review Technical Review Risk Management Software Developers 101

The Strategic Project Manager

MARCH 12, 2022

Each has the opportunity to either act out of self-interest (defect) for a better personal outcome – with the risk of a worse outcome for the other prisoner, and maybe even himself. Each also can choose to cooperate in silence with the other for a better overall outcome, at the risk of betrayal by the other.

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MPUG

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Euterpe encourages us to embrace experimentation and risk-taking in pursuit of innovation. Collaboration between project sponsors and stakeholders to develop the scope and best strategy is required for success, including estimations of time and costs. If you are interested in exploring this exercise, let us know.

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