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Risk Management Process

The risk management process is a path you can follow to help keep your project progressing towards a successful conclusion. This can be accomplished when you have an effective risk management plan that is documented. The risk management process has to be an active part of your risk plan. This will be the path you and your team will take when a risk is about to or has been encountered by your project. The reason to have a risk plan in place is so it can be mitigated in the most effeicent manner possible. Without a plan in place you and your project team would have to take the time in deciding how severe the impact damage is and what would be the appropriate steps to minimize the damage. With a risk plan in place there will be no lost time in deciding what to do next. Your risk management process will involve listing all of the possible risks that could impact your project. You will also need to prioritize them according to impact potential and severity of the damage they could inflic

Using Project Management Process Groups

By using a number of project management process groups to assist the project manager in the next business venture, more can be accomplished in less time. The best way to utilize members of your project team for this application is to look at the specialties each of them possesses. This way, they can make the biggest contribution to the number of tasks you have to complete. Each of your project management process groups must have specific training or experience in the area to assist you. At times, you can even go outside your project team if qualified personnel are available within your organization. It all depends on the size of your organization, along with its standing procedures that are to be followed. A good example of using project management process groups is the inclusion into the cost management process group of an accountant. They are the ones that have to look at all of the figures for your organization. They will know the patterns and what the stakeholders are willing to

Using a Risk Management Plan

It takes more than just having a risk management plan in place for it to be effective.  You must use it in an active manner for your project to avoid the costs and delays that many of the risks that could impact your project in the course of its evolution. This is the responsibility of the project manager. The main reason the manager is responsible for activating the risk management plan is generally they are the one that created it. This is done with the aid of the project management template program. This allows for the project manager to assemble a risk plan that will follow a known path to successfully dealing with the risks and their inherent dangers when they impact your project. Not all of the dangers in the risk management plan will have the same influence on your project. For this reason they need to be categorized according to their impact potential and severity of the impact when it does occur. Once this is done with all the possible risks listed, you can then begin to for

The Freedom of Agile Methodology

The freedom that the agile methodology gives your project team is advantageous in the software industry. It takes the iterative and incremental path when approaching the way you handle your business venture in the software industry. Best of all this methodology is flexible so it can be instantly adjusted to meet the ever changes demand of the industry and the target audience. The agile methodology values working software over a comprehensive set of documents like most business ventures require. This is one of the reasons this approach to developing a deliverable is so flexible. There is no real set path to follow other than the end goal. Individuals in the project team are basically set loose to accomplish their tasks in the manner in which they see best. The approach to a project with Agile Methodology also takes into account that the customer or target audience might have their needs or requirement changing. Since the structure of this methodology is flexible, their needs and want