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Project Risk Management →  Video on Project Risk Management Changes and Risks are inevitable, you can't run from these. To be an effective project manager it is in your favour to plan for these calamities beforehand. The challenge with this planning is that both risks and changes are unknown. The war room or continuous communication and face to face interaction helps in identifying the unknown. Project Risk Management is the route to the identification, evaluation, and response to any risk that emerges and assists the project remains on track and meet its ultimate goal. Risk management is an important part of the planning process to determine the risks that might happen and how to control. As a project manager, there’s nothing better to make you sleep well at night knowing that you have got the risk to your project under control and the stakeholders know about them. "Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong."   - Murphy's Law A risk is something that could p...

Project Schedule Management Introduction - PMP/CAPM →  Definition →   Processes →   Deliverables →  Further Readings →  Knowledge Areas Defining an effective Project Schedule, is this an art or Science? Through Project Schedule Management process we are estimating the future, something we have no control over. A key responsibility of project managers is to create a practically feasible project schedule. Prior to the execution of the project, the project manager needs to identify attainable project end date. Schedules are fundamental to the control of the project and you should be proactively working on getting a workable and realistic Project Schedule. A project is made up of many activities, with a start and end date, so the project can be completed on time. These dates are affected by the availability of the resources, which are not abundant and free at will, therefore their availability needs to be documented in order to successfully plan those tasks. So in short to achieve good est...

Project Communication Management →  Definition →   Processes →   Deliverables →  Further Readings →  Knowledge Areas   [caption id="" align="alignright" width="398"] Communication channels on a global project - multiple locations. (Jean Binder 2007:87-89)[/caption] Project Communications management is essential to any successful project; it comprises of the procedures required to ensure on time/prompt and suitable/appropriate production, assembly, dissemination, storage, and final outlook of project information. It offers crucial connections among individuals, ideas, and information that is essential for success. Organizations environment and culture impacts the level and the kind of communications one may have on the project. Many project managers have implemented the technical work to excellence in order to figure out that stakeholders are not contended due to poor communication. For that reason, project communication is equally important as the technic...

Project Communication Management →  Definition →   Processes →   Deliverables →  Further Readings →  Knowledge Areas   [caption id="" align="alignright" width="398"] Communication channels on a global project - multiple locations. (Jean Binder 2007:87-89)[/caption] Project Communications management is essential to any successful project; it comprises of the procedures required to ensure on time/prompt and suitable/appropriate production, assembly, dissemination, storage, and final outlook of project information. It offers crucial connections among individuals, ideas, and information that is essential for success. Organizations environment and culture impacts the level and the kind of communications one may have on the project. Many project managers have implemented the technical work to excellence in order to figure out that stakeholders are not contended due to poor communication. For that reason, project communication is equally important as the technic...