Book By: (Elizabeth Harrin) Review for "Managing Multiple Projects" Publisher: Kogan Page Pages: 240 Edition: 1st Edition  Authors Pages: Linkedin Facebook Instagram Youtube Link Cost/Purchase Price: Amazon: $35.99, You can purchase the book HERE (As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases) Who Should Read This Book? All Project Managers need to read this book. We are living in a fast-paced society. More and more companies want to see more, and they want to see it now! Therefore, project managers are faced with juggling a heavier and hearvier workload to m ..read more

Linkedin Facebook Instagram Youtube Risks Bring Project Managers and Project Risk Managers Together To any project manager, project risk management is one of the most critical aspects of project planning. You cannot start a project without fully understanding the risk in achieving your outcome. Could you have a problem with your schedule? – Risk Do you have a problem with your budget going over? – Risk Did you find a way to fast-track your schedule without spending additional funds? – still a [positive] Risk No other element of the project lifecycle, like risk, can lead to a project going ..read more

Linkedin Facebook Instagram Youtube Marine Corps Leadership Principles and Traits for Project Managers Leadership in Project Management People know The United States Marine Corps for breeding and developing Marines into leaders. With the addition of the Space Force, the Marine Corps is now the 2nd smallest branch within the Armed Services, but the Marine Leader stands out amongst the US Military. Why is this? From the outset of a Marine’s career, instructors and mentors instill the 14 leadership Traits and 11 leadership principles in the Marines mind. This ensures a robust groundwork for l ..read more

The Project Risk Mangers Role In Project Management My risk management and filling a risk managers role goes back to my experience as a Logistics Officer in the US Marine Corps. Although no one called me a risk manager, as a Logistics Officer, we did quite a lot of risk management. A quote we used to laugh about was: “I’m a Logistics Officer, I solve problems that you don’t know you have before they ever happen.” In addition to this humble skill of the logisticians, we were also a thankless job. Generally, no one cared about all the planning, work, and coordination we did. That was, unti ..read more

Managing Project Tips for Success This post may sound elementary and overly simple, but it is something that even senior and more experienced project managers get wrong. The following information are the “Basics” of project management, which all project managers should learn to master. In the Marine Corps, we preached understanding the basics of Marine Corps tactics. We called it “Brilliance in the Basics”. If you can understand and employ the basics, you will be prepared to handle the situation when more complicated scenarios come into play. So, let us start by stating the importance of pr ..read more

Review for: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time Book By: Jeff Sutherland and J.J. Sutherland Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time Publisher: Crown Currency Pages: 248 Edition: First Edition Authors Pages: Jeff Sutherland Linkedin X-twitter J.J. Sutherland Linkedin X-twitter Cost/Purchase Price: Amazon: Scrum: The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time (As an Amazon Affiliate, I earn from qualifying purchases) Who Should Read? SCRUM: The Process of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time should be a mandatory reading for ..read more

Review for: Strategic Project Management Made Simple: Solution Tools For Leaders and Teams Book By: Terry Dean Schmidt Strategic Project Management Made Simple Publisher: Wiley Pages: 224* Edition: Second Edition Authors Pages: Linkedin Facebook Twitter Youtube Cost/Purchase Price: Amazon: Strategic Project Management Made Simple (As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases) Who Should Read? Strategic Project Management Made Simple is a must-read for project managers, their project teams, and anyone who drives organizational change. Terry’s book i ..read more

Linkedin Facebook Instagram Youtube When you manage risks, you manage the life of your project. One of the keys to success is for project managers to manage the project management processes. The risk management process is an integral part of that success. It doesn’t matter if your project is an IT project or a construction project; you must carefully manage risk by going through the entire risk management step-by-step process. Therefore, today, we will go over a topic I discussed with a colleague the other day, which I knew I had to write about: the Project Risk Management steps. You need t ..read more

Hello! Welcome to The Risk Blog. For those I haven’t met yet, I am Russ, a retired US Marine Corps Officer, current project manager, and the owner of Forty-Four Risk PM, LLC. I’m starting The Risk Blog as Forty-Four Risk PM’s first initiative, and I plan to deploy other initiatives iteratively throughout the future. Ensure you join the newsletter to receive the latest and greatest updates on the company’s initiatives. You can sign up for our newsletter here:  Subscribe This initial post is me expanding on the “About Me” page. Today’s blog allows me to give you more details on me a ..read more