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PMI-RMP: Monitor Risks

Project Risk Coach

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) 6th Edition defines Monitor Risks as “the process of monitoring the implementation of agreed-upon risk response plans, tracking identified risks, identifying and analyzing new risks, and evaluating risk process effectiveness throughout the project.”

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How to Monitor Remote Employees Without Damaging Team Morale

Proofhub

Source: [link] Employee monitoring is a contentious topic. On the one hand, monitoring your employees’ workflows helps ensure that teams are working appropriately when on the clock. However, employee monitoring can also be construed as a symptom of managerial distrust.

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How to do Rolling Wave Planning

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. Rolling wave planning gives you the ability to plan in smaller, incremental, steps.

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How to Monitor Daily Progress as a Project Manager

ProjectManager.com

People love to monitor everything, from their weight to their finances, so it’s only natural that managers want to monitor daily progress on their projects. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you how. In Review – How to Monitor Daily Progress as a Project Manager. Jennifer said she’s surprised how upset some people get when asked how their project plan is progressing. Cost, which refers to the budget.

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How to Measure DevSecOps Progress and Ensure Success

Speaker: Shannon Lietz, Director of DevSecOps Team, Intuit

The new DevSecOps team is up and running, and you feel ready to take on rising security threats while delivering quality software updates. But that leaves just one question: how do you monitor your new program as effectively and efficiently as possible? Join Shannon Lietz, Director of DevsecOps at Intuit, and award-winning innovator, to learn the answers to these questions so you can lead your DevSecOps team to the top!

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How to Manage a Team Member With A Negative Attitude

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How can I deal with a team member with a bad attitude? How can I deal with a project team member whose attitude sucks?”. That was what a reader got in touch to ask recently. You don’t have the time or the energy to carry someone along for the ride.

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How To Manage Multiple Projects At The Same Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Watch my free webinar training on the 3 critical skills you need to manage multiple projects. Learn the skills you really need to juggle all your work! A reader got in touch to ask me how I manage my personal project To Do list. “I

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How to Delegate Tasks

Rebel’s Guide to PM

. Delegating tasks is something every project manager needs to get good at. If you want to do more work, you need more people doing the work. It’s not rocket science to realize that the project manager can’t do all the tasks. Click To Tweet. Much easier to do it yourself.

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How to Communicate Risks

Project Risk Coach

And one of the most important things to communicate is your risks. How do you communicate risks? How would you like for me to communicate with you? Find the person who has the appropriate knowledge of the risk and the skills to analyze, monitor, and respond to the risk.

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

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We were due to go live with our pilot software launch but things didn’t feel right. I emailed him, because I wanted to be told that we were making the right decision. Delaying was the right thing to do, but not an easy choice. People were lined up to support the pilot.

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Performing Proficient Portfolio Management Against All Odds

Speaker: Ordonna Sargeant — PMP Staff Research Program Manager, Twitter | Scrum Master | Author | Speaker | ATP PMP Instructor | Adjunct Professor | PM Content Creator

In this webinar, Global Program Manager, Scrum Master, and Educator Ordonna Sargeant will provide you with key takeaways to apply when managing a complex portfolio!

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Project Resource Management: The Ultimate Guide on How to Master It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Resources are the largest contributor to successful project delivery , and project managers spend significant time planning and managing their activities. Both resource and project managers work in tandem to develop resourcing strategies for projects. Or do I need to hire someone else?

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Project Monitoring: The Beginner’s Guide

Teamweek

Effective project monitoring helps keep the moving parts of a project flowing. Staff members fall sick, clients push out the project scope, and even if just one or two of your subtasks take longer to complete than the estimates. What is project monitoring?

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How To Manage Multiple Projects At The Same Time

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A reader got in touch to ask me how I manage my personal project To Do list. “I I struggle with how to manage my project-related tasks, beyond dealing with the crisis of the day.”. The question of how to manage multiple projects at the same time comes up a lot.

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How to Make Your Virtual Meetings More Engaging

Project Bliss

It can be tough to make your virtual meetings more engaging. Meeting participants are by now accustomed to meeting online. Participants can be disengaged, distracted, or simply intimidated to speak up. . You need to create an environment that fosters more engagement.

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How to Write Results-Oriented Goals

Project Risk Coach

And this can lead to misunderstandings about what the project team needs to achieve. Let's look at how to write results-oriented goals. Simple Goal Formula Verb -> Focus -> Target -> Deadline Click here to learn more. How to Jumpstart an ERM Program.

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How to Cash In on Project Opportunities

Project Risk Coach

4 How to Get Started 5 Tools for Identifying Opportunities 6 Think Outside the Box 7 Where Will You Capture Opportunities? 8 Evaluating Opportunities 9 Responding to Opportunities 10 Monitoring Opportunities. What does it mean to exploit an opportunity?

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How to Create an Event Budget

ProjectManager.com

Having to make an event budget adds another layer of stress. But it doesn’t have to be a nightmare if you follow a few simple steps to creating an event budget. If your event budget is wrong, that’s even worse; you might not be able to pay vendors or speakers.

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How To Manage Project Tolerances (with PRINCE2 Guide)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Tolerances are an important part of being able to work autonomously as a project manager. You need to have the authority and freedom of action to be able to change the direction the work is going in. Welcome to the wonderful world of project tolerances.

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How to Identify and Manage Emerging Risks

Project Risk Coach

Ask 10 different risk management experts to define emerging risks, and you will likely receive different points of view. In this article, let's define emerging risks, discuss ways to identify them, and look at different ways to manage these risks. Click to Tweet.

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How to Write a Creative Brief

ProjectManager.com

Similar to a journey, projects have a beginning and an end. Then we’ll break down the creative brief into its essential parts and show you how to write one to deliver project success. Then you can set a baseline to track project variance in real time and stay on schedule.

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How to Write a Project Description: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

Let’s talk a look at what a project description is, why it’s so important and how to write an impactful one. Then we’ll throw in some free project management templates that can get you started and show how project management tools help turn the project description into a reality.

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Project Prioritization: How to Prioritize Projects & Strategy

ProjectManager.com

In any sized organization, there are some simple methods that allow you to effectively prioritize your projects so that you can apply the strategic vision of your organization, achieve business goals and level your resources. Relative need to the organization.

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How to Write a Business Case

ProjectManager.com

A business case is the way you prove to your client, customer or stakeholder that the product you’re pitching is a sound investment. Below, we illustrate the steps to writing one that will sway them. Projects fail without having a solid business case to rest on.

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How to Write a Project Summary (Free Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

You need to convince stakeholders or clients that the project is worthwhile. To start, let’s define the term. It also outlines the project’s objectives, background information to place it in context, requirements, problems, analysis and ends with a conclusion.

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How to Do Resource Scheduling in Project Management with Ease

Epicflow Blog

In addition, some factors are difficult to predict at the outset of the project, which creates additional uncertainties in the scheduling process. How to make this process easier, more informed, and efficient? How Epicflow Optimizes Resource Scheduling.

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How to Write a Business Case (Template Included)

ProjectManager.com

A business case is a project management document that explains how the benefits of a project overweigh its costs and why it should be executed. Below, we illustrate the steps to writing one that will sway them. How to Write A Business Case. How are they doing things?

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How to Manage Multiple Projects

ProjectManager.com

Every action taken in one project needs to feed into the next with fluidity and poise, and when done right, a skilled portfolio manager can make it seem like no trouble at all. How to Know If You’re Managing Multiple Projects. That’s how they’re managed. Here’s how.

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Changing Requirements in Project Management: How to Stay on Track

Epicflow Blog

Changing requirements is what project managers often have to deal with. However, clear requirements are the key to a project’s success: according to the Project Management Institute , almost a half of unsuccessful projects fail to meet goals due to poor requirements management.

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How to Assemble a Project Team

ProjectManager.com

If they weren’t, they might as well just be tasks on a to-do list. Luckily, projects are also a group effort—for every project, there is a project team working together to make deliverables a reality. How do these teams come together? How to Assemble a Project Team.

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How to Make a CPM Schedule: CPM Scheduling Basics

ProjectManager.com

It’s the longest sequence of tasks that must be completed to deliver the project, and these tasks are referred to as critical activities. Learn how to make one, leverage some free templates to help and find out how CPM software facilitates the process.

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What Is a Capital Improvement Plan & How to Create One

ProjectManager.com

It’s not uncommon for organizations to have more plans than they have funds. That creates a dilemma: how to spend their budget. A capital improvement plan can guide an organization when it’s trying to figure out which large projects or purchases in which they should invest.

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The 12 Agile Principles: Definitions & How to Use Them

ProjectManager.com

Agile is a project management methodology that allows development teams to set up a dynamic work management framework. Agile principles also apply to other project management methodologies derived from agile such as kanban or scrum. Responding to change over following a plan.

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Dealing with Murphy’s Law in Project Management: How to Protect Your Projects from Failure

Epicflow Blog

Perhaps you know the pessimistic but cautious statement that can refer to any kind of activity: “If anything can go wrong, it will”. It’s applicable to any sphere of human life, and the field of project management is no exception. Let’s try to find an answer to this question.

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Cost-Plus Contract: How to Use One

ProjectManager.com

Imagine you’re building something conceptual, but you only have a general idea of how to do so. You’ll want to hire a contractor who’s familiar with this type of job and knows the specific steps to take. But how are these additional fees and rates determined?

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How to Start a Career in Project Management: Answers to FAQ

Epicflow Blog

A profession of a project manager has always been in demand and seems to be gaining momentum more and more. We’ll try to predict your questions and provide answers to them. How Can I Understand that a Career of Project Manager Fits Me?

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What Is a Project Scope Baseline & How to Create One?

ProjectManager.com

Learn what is a project scope baseline and how to make one. In this video, our host Jennifer Bridges PMP explains how to define the project scope and why it is important to create a scope baseline for your projects. How to Create a Scope Baseline.

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Project Kickoff Meeting: How to Write a Kickoff Meeting Agenda

ProjectManager.com

But all that work is pointless if they don’t communicate the purpose of the project to their team and clients. The project kickoff meeting communicates the project goals and objectives to ensure the project team and client are clear on what they should be doing in the project.

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Ask a PM: How to Get Proper Estimates

LiquidPlanner

We do a lot of projects that are innovative (for us), and my development colleagues always seem reluctant when it comes to project planning. How do you deal with a team that refuses to estimate how long tasks will take? Estimating can be done in several solid ways, and frankly, it sounds as if your colleagues don’t know how to estimate properly or are scared to give you the timescales that pop into their heads.

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How to Make a Process Improvement Plan

ProjectManager.com

Project managers and their teams depend on those processes to ensure that a project runs smoothly. That type of thinking is what will quickly send a project off track and possibly cause it to fail. Constantly analyzing your processes is the best way to reach a successful end.

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