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Tag Archives: Risk Management
When Risks Must Be Treated As Issues
Conventional Project Management wisdom is that risks are unfavorable things that could happen, but have not yet happened, whereas issues are unfavorable things that have occurred. Yet, in the real world of managing complex projects, thinking that there is a … Continue reading
Project Managers Must Know When to Break the Rules
One of the major challenges, faced by Project Managers is achieving a workable balance between compliance with company policies, procedures and standard practices, and being responsive to external customer requests that require “bending” those rules. In theory, standard policies, procedures … Continue reading
Building Leadership Skills – A “Novel” Approach
I’ve always been, even as a young child, an avid reader of both fiction and non-fiction. I admit to enjoying fiction novels more than non-fiction books and articles, although I do read a lot of the latter. In the past, … Continue reading
Managing Project Risk By Looking Inside Your Team
In a September 2012 post I introduced the idea of “Implicit Metrics.” Implicit metrics are all about the nature and health of the project team operating environment and the ways in which it affects the interactions and knowledge transactions between … Continue reading
Project Management and the Risk and Learning Cycle
During the life of a project there is a Risk and Learning Cycle that takes place that is critical to the success of the effort and an important foundation for projects that follow. This blog describes my thoughts on that cycle, … Continue reading
Knowledge & Risk Management Competence
Why are we typically so ineffective in performing project risk management? Why, in spite of all of our smart people, great tools and extensive experience are we continually surprised and impacted by things, we realize in retrospect, could have been … Continue reading
Worrying About Risk Management
I was recently asked for my thoughts on the relationship between “worrying” and risk management. I thought I’d share my response in this blog. “Worry” is an emotional state, evoked in response to some condition we have, or might encounter. … Continue reading
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A Bit of Risk Management Humor
Although you may not be professionally enagaged in risk management activities, you and everyone else in the world is in fact a risk management practitioner. If you buckle your seat, make a restaurant reservation or have life insurance, you’re managing risk. I wrote this … Continue reading
The Interdependency of Project, Risk, and Knowledge Management
One of the many things I’ve learned during my 39-year career as an Engineer and Project Manager is the intimacy of the interdependency between Project Management, Risk Management and Knowledge Management. This is the first in a series of blogs … Continue reading
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