When you’re trying to keep track of what everyone is doing and what needs to be done, you can very quickly begin to drown in the sea of things associated with your project. It’s easy to become overwhelmed if you’re doing a lot of different things. Try using Excel to track those action items.
Risks can change over the course of a project, which means that tracking is a crucial part of your company’s risk management process. Knowing how elevated risks can change the outcome of your mission can determine the resources you assign to them.
Although teams can use a risk matrix to report progress on containing risks, they should also have policies in place to identify new risks. You want to promote shared vision among your team mates. You need to permit anonymous risk reporting and create contingency plans.
As projects move through the implementation and the monitoring phases of the project cycle, project managers and risk officers should have their own plans for measuring the effectiveness of risk management processes.
How much do you really know about the history and development of the PERT chart? This popular project management tool has had a rather interesting life over the last 50 years. Read on to find out more.
Just what is a technical statement of work and how it can it help you manage projects more effectively? What’s the difference between this statement and other statements of work? We’ll discuss these questions in addition to describing how to develop such a statement.
Although a project manager holds responsibility for all aspects of a business initiative, appointing a separate team member as Risk Officer can improve interpersonal relations while avoiding groupthink.
Effective business development requires taking on calculated risk. For project managers, risks that develop into legitimate threats can lead to failed projects and stalled careers. Therefore, veteran project managers insist on strong risk management policies and procedures.
Find the right way to establish implementation processes for best quality, acceptable costs and good timing. Such a process should be easy, predictable, understandable and accepted by all stakeholders. That’s a challenging job! Two examples are explored in this article.
Project management is a serious career, but we all need to laugh about ourselves and our work from time to time. Take a break and join me for some laughs with the top five Project Management Jokes.
