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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

Liquid Planner Leadership

If project management were an off-road 4×4 expedition, where teams had to plot a course through the unknown, cost and schedule contingency would be akin to the number of spare fuel cans you can carry successfully to complete the trip. Risk is not solved with a calculation. No one can predict the future with 100% accuracy.

Manager 89
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Definition of Broken (DoB): A Tool for Improving Communications and Outcomes

Mike Griffiths

This is why some projects create control limits around critical parameters and develop escalation plans to communicate exceptions and agree on the next steps. However, on most small to medium size projects, these escalation plans are often missing or left to the project manager's discretion.

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6 Helpful Tips for Managing International Projects

Liquid Planner Collaboration

I have a formal project management certification, but managing projects with international teams is new to me. The principles of managing projects with international teams are the same as managing a project with a team all in your own country. You’re already a good project manager.

Manager 106
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Beyond Agile presentation this Friday

Mike Griffiths

On Friday, September 30, I will be presenting a session on Beyond Agile at the HTEC Project Management Virtual Conference. It acknowledges that agile approaches are a great place to start for knowledge work projects, And adds that sometimes, traditional approaches can bring useful elements for risk management, dependency analysis, etc.

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Cognitive Blind Spots in Team Collaboration

Liquid Planner Collaboration

Today’s software tools used by project professionals provide a consistent and transparent book of record. When properly configured, such systems facilitate good governance and offer reference data that may serve as a risk radar , helping teams identify a proverbial iceberg and prompt proactive course correction.

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Let’s Rewrite the PMBOK

Mike Griffiths

If we want to change the future of project management I believe the best way to do that is from the inside outwards by doing the work - not from the outside inwards just criticizing. However, Chair and Co-Chair sounds too hierarchical so we switched to Lead and Co-Lead role to match the new structures we will be embracing.

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13 Future HR Skills You Need to Start Building Now

AIHR

Change management and change consulting 2. Risk management 3. Stakeholder management 5. Management of strategic deals and alliances 6. Project management 13. Risk management. Risk management for HR is about analyzing the risks that a complex workforce might pose to the business.