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Project Decision-Making: A Process Guide For How To Do It Better

Rebel’s Guide to PM

All of them are part of the project governance framework. It’s helpful to have a decision-making process or framework to guide you, especially when faced with complex problems that require additional info from others. There are 5 steps the decision-making process in project management. Who doesn’t want that?

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Project Risk Audits: What you need to know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A risk audit is a process used to determine whether the actions to manage the risk are actually happening and if they are happening effectively. Audits are part of internal controls on a project and fall under the governance arena, so if you have specific PMO team members who look at governance, they are the ones to ask.

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Deciphering the Sprint Backlog Conundrum

Scrum.org

But, as I delve deeper into the subject, it becomes apparent that the process is far from a mere checklist exercise. The selection process is not about conjuring items as if by magic but about making informed decisions that align with a well-defined Sprint goal. It informs but does not govern the Sprint's content.

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How to facilitate a project meeting

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You can focus on the process of getting the outcome you want and supporting the attendees instead of trying to get your own personal point of view into the discussion. Here’s the meeting process I use. That could be transcribing process flows from flip charts or putting together a draft project schedule from the organised sticky notes.

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Review People Over Process

Henny Portman

Levine wrote with People Over Process – Leadership for Agility a very pragmatic and down to earth book about leadership and agile projects. Furthermore, neither agile or scrum contemplates how the agile team should be connected to a larger organization and to external partners who will likely have differing development processes and cadences.

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10 Strategies for Successful Project Execution

ProjectManager.com

During the five process groups of the project life cycle, there are multiple objectives and outcomes for each phase. After the project initiation and the planning processes, the execution of the project begins. During this phase a project leader will focus on these key processes: Managing people. Following processes.

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Project decision making: a guide for doing it better

Rebel’s Guide to PM

All of them are part of the project governance framework. It’s helpful to have a decision-making process or framework to guide you, especially when faced with complex problems that require additional info from others. Step-by-step decision-making process overview There are 5 steps in the decision-making process in project management.