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Public Infrastructure: Project Management as a Key Success Factor

Inloox

External influences. Incompetence in project management. Lack of risk management. Even though this project not quite reaches the epic financial miscalculation of Berlin’s BER airport, it again shows the difficulties realizing public infrastructure projects within their tightly constraint project plan.

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Project managers are often faced with the challenge of managing complex projects and ensuring that they stay on track. I’ll confess: when I started out as a project manager, this was a piece of jargon that honestly didn’t mean much at all? But what is an organizational process asset (OPA)? Think intranet or policy library.

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Navigating External Factors in Small Business Risk Management

Proofhub

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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How to Manage Project Environment from Initiation to Close

ProjectManager.com

Managing a project is difficult. You need to be aware of the project environment and prepare for its influence on your project throughout the project management life cycle. A project environment is all the internal and external forces that exert on your project management. It’s sort of like managing risk in that way.

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Risks in the project: an overview

Inloox

Know the risks in your project! Risk management plays an enormously important role in project management. The task here is to identify, analyze, control and ultimately minimize risks. The better risk management is handled in your project, the greater the probability of success, all other things being equal.

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How to Navigate the Project Environment Even if You’re New to Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

By: Hajime Estanislao, PMP, CSM Project managers, have you ever felt overwhelmed by the unpredictable waves of the project environment? The terrain of project management is fraught with hidden challenges and opportunities lying in wait for the unwary. Be alert to risks so you will have ample room to take action. Because it is.

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Using Operational Excellence to Be More Productive

ProjectManager.com

If you’re looking to become more productive, then you must use work management tools and methods that help every aspect of your organization to achieve that goal. It must positively influence all aspects of a business, including revenue, cost and risk. Integrated Management System. Elements of Operational Excellence.