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PMBOK® Seventh Edition Principles and Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

The Project Management Institute (PMI) released the PMBOK® Guide, Seventh Edition in July 2021. In this article, let's look at each principle and why each one matters with respect to managing risks. Optimize Risk Responses 11. For example, one of the PMBOK® principles is to optimize risk responses.

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6 Easy Ways to Manage Group Think and Risk at Work

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s an edited extract from his book Risk Happens ! In the 1970s, the social psychologist Irving Janis examined how groups make decisions. He found that a group’s dynamic often inhibits exploration of alternatives. As the group approaches consensus, dissenting voices are rejected or, indeed, are often self-censored.

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Book review: Risk Happens

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mike Clayton defines risk as “uncertain events that can affect outcomes,” in his book, Risk Happens!: Managing Risk and Avoiding Failure in Business Projects. Risk management is the most important of your project controls. So what exactly is project risk management? It won’t.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. In other words, this is the group that takes the tough decisions. What is a project steering group?

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IT Risk Management Strategies and Best Practices

ProjectManager.com

It’s big business that’s involved in almost every sector of the economy, and therefore carries some major risks. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you the importance of IT risk management in this short tutorial video. In Review – IT Risk Management Strategies and Best Practices. What is IT Risk Management?

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Navigating External Factors in Small Business Risk Management

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Small Business Risk Management If you’re thinking of starting a new business, learning how to start a t-shirt business or a marketing business is not going to be enough. Internal risk factors are those that are under a company’s control, while external risk variables are those that are beyond its control.

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Is the triple constraint in project management still relevant? (Spoiler: No!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The most commonly used planning constraint method in project management was historically the “triple constraint” – time, cost and scope – sometimes known as the project management triangle or the “iron triangle” because it’s often shown as a triangle with the constraints at each vertex. What is the Triple Constraint?