Risk Management

Uncertainty is inevitable. What are the keys to managing Uncertainty? There are two main ways to tackle uncertainty: You can either decrease the level of uncertainty or increase flexibility. My…

The topic of risk ownership always prompts lively conversation when discussed with any individual from my classroom to a client’s site. Who should be the actual risk owner? Should it…

There are many factors that can impede remote project management, each of which will be discussed in this article as well as several solutions for each. Productivity degradation Even the…

If you think you don’t have time for risk management, in the video below I discuss how I teach my students to factor risk into a work breakdown structure. I’ve also…

Planning and managing a project involves many elements that cannot be all included in one article. However, they can be grouped into three major categories: Product, People, and Process. Product:…

A few weeks ago, a stakeholder at work was complaining about how we, the general, all-encompassing WE, the project manager could never be happy with simply doing anything and that…

Be careful! By attempting to read this article, you’re taking a risk. Will it be worth the time you spend reading this article? Is it the first time you read…

Time and time again, I mention the word “risk” in conversations, and what comes to everyone’s mind is, first and foremost, something negative. You can see it on people’s faces,…

No organization is immune to change or risk. Especially during the last few years, it seems that change has picked up momentum. It seems at every turn, we face something…

Risk-like beauty is very much in the eye of the beholder. For every stakeholder taking part in your project or being asked to contribute in some way, each will come…