Tag Archives: Risk Happens

Top Ten things to build into your Project Contingency Plan

A contingency plan is a valuable part of your risk management. Whilst it won’t stop risks happening, nor even make them more likely, it will give you a clear set of steps to follow if it does happen. This will … Continue reading

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Five Ways to Remove Project Risk

The highest standard of risk management strategy is to remove the risk altogether. It is not always possible, but let’s survey five approaches that you can consider on aspects of your project. 1. Over-design A “gold-plated” specification that is over-specified … Continue reading

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The Ten Strategic Risks that Cause Projects to Fail

Project failure seems to be almost endemic at the moment. There are frequent press reports of massively over-spent Government projects, and major commercial project delayed or cancelled. Anyone who works in a big organisation will have seen it up close, … Continue reading

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Ten Reasons Crises Happen – and what you can do about them.

Risks don’t always materialise one at a time. Sometimes a whole flood of them takes over your project or business and creates a crisis. We usually think that crises emerge from nowhere, but this is rarely true. More often, we … Continue reading

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Second book on Project Management

The advance copies of Brilliant Project Leader arrived on Tuesday morning and they are looking excellent. It will be published today, 17 November, and Amazon UK are promising availability from 23 November. It has its own dedicated website at: Brilliant … Continue reading

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