Identify and Manage Risks Properly

• This enables you to reduce or eliminate risks.
• Helps you make plans for each major risk.
• Reduces the possibility of things going wrong in the project.
• If something goes wrong, you have a plan ready.
• Reduces stress on you as the project manager.
• Means you should rarely have to work overtime or on “emergency measures”

Tagged with: emergency • wrong

Filed under: Planning • Risk

Make sure to write the lessons learned for each project. This should include what has been done right, wrong, and what you would do differently if you could redo the project.

• This is for your benefit as well as for other project managers.
• When starting a project, it is useful to be able to find a similar project your organisation has done and look at its lessons learned.
• It should include both technical and management areas.
• It should be added to your organisations database to be easily searchable by project type, project manager’s name, key functional areas, etc.

Tagged with: lessons • redo • right • wrong

Filed under: Documentation • Training