Project Management in Practice

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Tag Archives: programme management

Visualising risks and issues

1 Comment Posted by on October 18, 2011

One of the key tasks of a Project Manager or Programme Manager is to identify and control and mitigate issues and risks in projects or programmes. Traditionally these are done using an issue number as an identifier and using plenty of text to explain the context of the risk, how you identify it, estimating and [...]

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How do I make sense of chaos?

Leave a Comment Posted by on August 16, 2011

I’m sitting in a transit lounge while I write this post. I’m heading to Los Angeles to undertake programme planning for three major pieces of work we’re delivering to our clients over the next twelve months. I was supposed to leave Wellington last night. If anyone has seen the news recently, Wellington has been hit [...]

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What is the difference between Project and Programme management?

3 Comments Posted by on July 31, 2011

I recently did my MSP certification, to gain better understanding of programme environments, compared to projects. One thing that came as a slight surprise to me was the difference in focus between projects and programmes. Projects are focused about providing fit for purpose products within a certain tolerances – time, cost, scope, quality, risk and [...]

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