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Can project managers succeed at complexity?

The hardest projects used to be about leading-edge engineering in harsh conditions. These days the complexity comes from, among other things, the diversity of stakeholders and the chance of decisions being revisited, writes Kieran Duck.

October 18, 2021

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5 reasons why opportunity should be part of your risk management

Risk Doctor David Hillson believes there are many compelling reasons to practice inclusive risk management that addresses both threats and opportunities. Here are the ‘five Cs’ of why opportunity should be part of your risk management.

June 14, 2021

Risk

Providing risk infrastructure to support opportunity management

Failure to provide an appropriate level of risk infrastructure can cripple risk management in an organisation. Too little support makes it difficult to implement the risk process efficiently, while too much infrastructure adds to the cost overhead.

September 12, 2019

Risk

10 ways the Iron Triangle destroys project success

There is an assumption that the Iron Triangle/Triple Constraint measures of ‘on time, on budget, to specification’ are benign but use of these measures actively enables and inadvertently encourages the destruction of business value, argues Jed Simms.

November 18, 2015

How project managers can combat silo thinking

Threats emerge and opportunities are missed when the left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing. Editor Adeline Teoh explains how project managers can bridge silos, support better risk management and assist innovation.

September 1, 2015

Blogs

Thinking at the margin for project managers

Thinking at the margin is what happens when people make decisions based on incremental cost-benefit analyses. It’s a factor in agile project management—but there’s a downside, warns editor Adeline Teoh.

July 20, 2015

Blogs

When opportunity knocks

By quietly listening for the opportunities in your life, and learning to recognise them in all their different forms, you can find plenty of avenues for self-improvement, says Michelle LaBrosse.

January 15, 2015

Blogs

The double life of risk

Risk is a double-sided concept, Risk Doctor David Hillson reminds us. We use the word ‘opportunity’ to describe an upside risk with positive impacts, and ‘threat’ for downside risks with negative consequences.

October 27, 2014

Risk