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PM FUN-DAS (short for Project Management Fundamentals) is published every Wednesday. It demystifies and disseminates concepts around project management in a humorous way.

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Risk Identification

Tags: #RiskIdentification

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Review meeting with a junior project team member

Boss: SHYAM, HAVE WE IDENTIFIED THE PROJECT RISKS? IF SO I WOULD LIKE TO GO THROUGH THEM.

Shyam: BOSS, I DON'T THINK THAT'S NEEDED.

Boss: WHAT DO YOU MEAN NOT NEEDED?

Shyam: RISK ACCEPTANCE IS MY MANTRA AND THE BEST PART ABOUT THIS IS THAT THERE IS NO RISK REGISTER REQUOIRED.

Risk Identification
Identification of risk is important and even more critical is to create a risk response strategy for each of the identified risks in the risk register.

Project Communication Management

Tags: #ProjectCommunicationManagement

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Boss: TINA, DID YOU MANAGE TO CONACT OUT TECHNICAL ARCHITECT FOR THAT ISSUE WHICH WASN'T GETTING RESOLVED

Tina: I DID TRY CALLING HIM. HE IS NEITHER PICKING UP HIS PHONE NOR RESPONDING TO MY CALLS.

Boss: HAVE YOU TRIED REACHING HIM THROUGH WHATSAPP?

Tina: SORRY, BUT THAT CHANNEL IS NOT COMMUNICATION PLAN.

Project Communication Management
Planning the project communications is important to the ultimate success of any project. Inadequate communications planning may lead to problems such as delay in message delivery which can lead to escalation of unresolved issues.

Collaborate with stakeholders

Tags: #Collaboratewithstakeholders

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Boss: DEV, THE CLIENT HAS BEEN COMPLANINIG ABOUT PROBLEMS PRESISTING IN THE APP. YOU AID THEY HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED.

Dev: YES, BOSS! THEY HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED ALREADY.

Dev: HE MAY BE REFERRING TO THE ONES WHICH WE HAVE NOT YET OBSERVED.

Boss: OR WHICH YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAVE COMPLETELY MISSED!

Collaborate with stakeholders
Evaluate engagement needs for stakeholders and optimize alignment between stakeholder needs, expectations, and project objectives

Schedule Baseline

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Review meeting in progress about project schedule

Boss: SAM, I REVIEWED THE BASELINE PLANE THAT YOU SHARED WIH ME CAN YOU EXPLAINE WHY SO MANY DEVIATIONS AND WHY IS THE PLAN FLUCTUATING SO MUCH?

Sam: DON'T WORRY, BOSS! WE ARE FOLLOWING A NIMBLE AN AGILE STRATEGY. THAT COULD BE THE REASON!

WHAT???

Schedule Baseline
The schedule baseline is used to measure and monitor the performance of a project: the delivered work at a point in time or over a period of time is compared against the baselined planned work at that time.

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