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In my continuing series on commonly held but, in my opinion, highly suspect project management practices, I want to ask the question: Exactly what do the risk analysts do that improves a project's abi ...
In my previous post, I put forth a few reasons why I believe that large parts of risk management theory, as currently practiced, are of relatively little (or even no) value, and the time, effort, and ...
As I have stated (on multiple occasions) in this blog, the worst 20% of managers who are in possession of 80% of the information they need to obviate the best decision in any given circumstance will o ...
In his book, Project Management for Musicians Jonathan Feist talks about several ways to mitigate risk, and they aren’t the ‘avoid, mitigate, reduce, transfer’ approaches that you ar ...
When you are putting together a project management team, you need to know who has what skills as well as experience. This form will help you inventory what each team member brings to the table.
Software projects fail for a reason. They are successful for a reason, too. This checklist spells out what to do--and what to avoid. See where your project stands.
This detailed checklist helps you evaluate your planned IT project objectively and realistically against known project management concepts and standards--as well as common pitfalls. Does your project measure up?
Make sure your IT projects are bulletproof. This checklist doubles as both a quality review plan and a risk assessment document.
Are you staffing your risk management team? This candidate evaluation matrix (Excel) coupled with the sample job description document (Word) will point you in the right direction for finding the ideal risk reviewer.
Need to perform a risk audit on a project? This Risk Review Process and Checklist guides you through an exhaustive review of the effort, including documentation, resourcing, delivery performance to date, financial performance to date, and much more. It's not just a checklist of simple measures, but asks a number of questions that truly speak to the potential for the project to achieve the results that were intended.
This checklist is a quick and dirty way of weighing risk factors against project criteria to discover level of risk.
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"Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it." - Albert Einstein |
