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Free Project Risk Management Template

by Alec Satin
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Risk Management is one of those project management areas that get more lip service than practice. There’s a perception that risk management is hard, complicated, takes a lot of time, and is boring.  While some risk management implementations can be all of these things, the risk management you choose to follow on your projects just needs to be “good enough”.

What is Good Enough Risk Management?

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Free Project Management Tool – Delivery Status Grid

by Alec Satin
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The Delivery Status Grid is provided here to help you in your project communication and reporting.  It was designed by Paul O’Brien, an experienced project manager and the creator of the Promise Keeper. The following post has been written by Paul O’Brien. What is it? The Delivery Matrix for each project lists all the key work products (documents, contracts, test-plans, computer code etc) and has a set of columns showing progress through the life of the object. It covers the initial design meetings, doing the work, reviewing and sign off phases. I put the rough % completion status in for [...]

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Free Project Management Tool – The Promise Keeper

by Alec Satin
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Jump to free downloads Does PMP certification make a better project manager? When Raven Young asked this question, opinions varied. Does Microsoft Project, the de facto project management software standard, improve IT project performance? I challenge anyone to show me proof of a strong correlation between how good you are as a project manager, and the cost of the tools that you use. Some of the best project managers use the simplest tools. Many of us who are efficiency software and tool junkies have come full circle and selectively reincorporated paper-based task systems into our personal workflows. As part of [...]

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