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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? Risk breakdown structures.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. I thought I’d repeat here what I said to her, in case anyone else finds it useful. Is this true?

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Project Management Trends [2022]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

That means your interpersonal skills are more important than ever – the shift is to project managers being awesome at stakeholder engagement , conflict resolution, change management (more on that later), negotiating, influencing and all the things that tools aren’t (yet) capable of doing for us. Think about how your PMO teams are rewarded.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They let you know whether you can go overspent or what risk mitigation actions are the right ones for this point in the project. Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. That’s the minimum (and the approach advocated by PRINCE2). Risks and issues. They should help guide you to project success.

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Issue Log - Template for Prince2 and Agile

Techno-PM

Managing a project is a complex process, which many liken to a tightrope act: the PM (Project Manager) must keep their balance while taking into consideration all the variables, tasks and the influence of all the team members and stakeholders. A risk is a problem which hasn’t occurred yet, and has a good chance of occurring in the future.

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Scope Management Plan: Everything You Need to Know

Online PM Courses

A note for PRINCE2 Practitioners. Guidance from your PMO (Project/Program/Portfolio Management Office). In this section, you would document those stakeholders who will have a particular influence over scoping or scope change decisions. If you get it right, it will reduce risk of scope changes during your project.

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Becoming a Project Manager – A Complete Guide for 2018

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Project management methodologies – Agile, Waterfall, PRINCE2, PRiSM, Six Sigma, Critical Path, and many more. Tackling daily project management challenges also requires accountability, adaptability, analytical and strategic thinking, decisiveness, a stress-resistant personality, and even a bit of love for risk-taking.

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