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Top Technical Skills Every Junior Project Manager Should Learn

Navigating the PM landscape as a junior project manager can be both an exciting and challenging endeavor. With numerous responsibilities and expectations, it’s essential to equip yourself with the right technical skills to excel in this role. From mastering project management software to effective communication techniques, understanding these skills can set the foundation for a […]

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What is the difference between Project, Programme and Portfolio Risk Management

Leadership

With the APM re-writing the Body of Knowledge being extended to cover project, programme and portfolio management can we expect different approaches to risk management each or will the same process apply to each level in the same way. What is the project risk management process? The project risk management process is well known. With initiate the

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IT Risk Management: A step-by-step guide

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The word risk has an inherently negative connotation to it. But what most folk don’t realise, is that anticipating risks is a sign of proactive management. A positive spin on risk can alert you to alternatives, create better opportunities, justify contingency plans and ultimately win you more business. Every invention falling under the Information

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Prioritising IT projects has never mattered more

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IT Project prioritisation is crucial for your organisation. Selecting the wrong projects, which don’t deliver strategic value or the required ROI can impact the bottom line and mean that your business reduces its chance of hitting targets and achieving goals. You should take a day or two (or longer if your portfolio and budgets demand

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Five tangles that could be damaging your IT project – and how to de-tangle them

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I was just asked to cast ‘an experienced eye’ over an IT project that had gone off the rails. “I think it needs more governance,” the project’s sponsor told me. What I found was a familiar sight, a project that was not failing through lack of governance but instead a lack of simplicity. The project

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Lesson on Risk Management

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Having worked in project management for many years and also involved in delivering training courses for project managers, there are lots of examples of how applying the right approach has proven successful. Here is one relating to risk management. In a major company wide project to implement a new system, we spent several weeks doing

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How to Minimize the Risk of Delaying Your Project by a Customer

PM Software

When it comes to project delays there are several factors that can lead to such situation. The customer is one of them and there are two issues that can be discussed: what to do when the delay already happened and the other how to minimize the risk of happening such a delay. Customer delaying the

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