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14 Common Project Risks (+ more)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Risks matter. Stuff happens on projects, and if the worst happens, it’s better to know about it in advance. That’s the point of risk management: thinking about what might go wrong before it does, so you can put a plan together to deal with it if it does. What’s a risk again? It helps to think of risks in categories.

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Managing Project Assumptions and Risks

The IIL Blog

By Alan Zucker We make hundreds of assumptions and take small risks daily. Recovering from these risks may be inconvenient but not horribly impactful. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Project assumptions and risks are not as casual. Until we validate them, they are risks.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

ProjectManager.com

In other words, you can look at an organization with strong project management maturity as one that’s managing the planning, execution and compilation of its projects well. This is true across all industries, from construction to manufacturing, professional services to IT and, really any organization that is managing projects.

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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

ProjectManager.com

Project budgets are estimated by project managers and then approved by the project client or stakeholders. Risk Management A project risk is an unexpected event, which can be positive or negative. Business: There’s a business component to project management, of course.

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Risk Management Process Explained (+resources, templates)

PM Basics

I’ve been managing software development projects for more than 11 years. Risk management is arguably the most crucial piece in my project management approach. Therefore, I spent lots of time and effort creating a practical risk management process. You’ll get the whole risk management process below.

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What Is a Program Manager? (Job Description Included)

ProjectManager.com

ProjectManager is online project management software that offers Gantt charts, kanban boards, task lists and many other program management tools so program managers and their teams can plan, schedule and track work in real time. Program managers must excel at risk management, resource management and project planning , among other things.

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The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

ProjectManager.com

PMBOK stands for Project Management Body of Knowledge. It is a set of standard terminology and guidelines for project management published and updated by The Project Management Institute (PMI). What Are the Project Management Knowledge Areas? Project Cost Management. Project Risk Management.