Slides from a Project Management workshop for the RAILS library consortium October 27th, 2016. Focus on Project Planning fundamentals for library Project Managers.
All of us must have heard this proverb umpteen number of times in our lives. However, when it comes to elicitation, we tend to forget the same.Elicitation is possibly the most important job we business analysts do. I am surprised that many of us understand only few facets of elicitation such as requirements gathering and recording.Elicitation is much more than requirements gathering and recording. A good elicitation activity can significantly reduce effort in changes in requirements and subsequent changes to design, construction and testing activities.Here is an attempt to make our elicitation exercises more effective.
The Product Visioning Workshop: A Proven Method for Product Planning and Prio...Perfetti Media
Is your team looking for new product concepts to capture a new market? Do you need to establish a long-term product strategy? Are you working to set a direction to drive roadmap decisions?
In this presentation, we will share a proven approach for creating a long-term product vision that your team can understand and rally behind. We will share all of the techniques you'll need to successfully run a Product Visioning Workshop with your product team and business stakeholders.
You will learn how to create a long-term vision for your product, establish consensus and buy-in across your organization, and prioritize features for the product roadmap. Your product managers will come away equipped to create roadmaps that align with your long-term product strategy.
How to Design a Value-Based Renewal Management ProcessGainsight
You can't rely on inertia to renew your customers for you. You can't even rely on customer happiness or delight to ensure a successful renewal event. In the Age of the Customer, the only predictable way to ensure renewal is to ensure your customers achieve their desired outcome. And that's intrinsically linke to value delivery. When you have a renewal process based on value, you're controlling all the variables that are in your control. Learn how to achieve a Value-Based Renewal Management process in this session.
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
Brancolini, Kristine and Jenn Riley. "Planning and Implementing a Digital Library Project," Indiana LSTA Digital Project Planning Workshop, February 7, 2006.
All of us must have heard this proverb umpteen number of times in our lives. However, when it comes to elicitation, we tend to forget the same.Elicitation is possibly the most important job we business analysts do. I am surprised that many of us understand only few facets of elicitation such as requirements gathering and recording.Elicitation is much more than requirements gathering and recording. A good elicitation activity can significantly reduce effort in changes in requirements and subsequent changes to design, construction and testing activities.Here is an attempt to make our elicitation exercises more effective.
The Product Visioning Workshop: A Proven Method for Product Planning and Prio...Perfetti Media
Is your team looking for new product concepts to capture a new market? Do you need to establish a long-term product strategy? Are you working to set a direction to drive roadmap decisions?
In this presentation, we will share a proven approach for creating a long-term product vision that your team can understand and rally behind. We will share all of the techniques you'll need to successfully run a Product Visioning Workshop with your product team and business stakeholders.
You will learn how to create a long-term vision for your product, establish consensus and buy-in across your organization, and prioritize features for the product roadmap. Your product managers will come away equipped to create roadmaps that align with your long-term product strategy.
How to Design a Value-Based Renewal Management ProcessGainsight
You can't rely on inertia to renew your customers for you. You can't even rely on customer happiness or delight to ensure a successful renewal event. In the Age of the Customer, the only predictable way to ensure renewal is to ensure your customers achieve their desired outcome. And that's intrinsically linke to value delivery. When you have a renewal process based on value, you're controlling all the variables that are in your control. Learn how to achieve a Value-Based Renewal Management process in this session.
Planning and Implementing a Digital Library ProjectJenn Riley
Brancolini, Kristine and Jenn Riley. "Planning and Implementing a Digital Library Project," Indiana LSTA Digital Project Planning Workshop, February 7, 2006.
Lincoln Murphy - Endeavor - August 2017 - The Ultimate Growth Engine: Using C...Lincoln Murphy
On August 16, 2017, Lincoln Murphy did a webinar for Endeavor and presented these slides, showcasing The Ultimate Growth Engine: Using Customer Success to Expand Revenue, Increase Profit, and Improve the Value of Your Company.
In this presentation, you will know about the role and responsibilities of an Agile Business Analyst? What is the context and need for an Agile business Analyst
This is adapted from our workshop at Mind the Product/London 2017. In this full-day session, we talked through the purposes of a roadmap and a process for establishing your product's vision, gaining alignment with your stakeholders, validating themes, and presenting to upper level execs in order to maximize your team's impact.
How to Build an Effective Customer Health ModelTotango
Your customers’ success is critical to your business. But how do you define and measure their success? Should you look at the number of support tickets, rate of adoption, revenue per customer, churn rate, net promoter score, or customer lifetime value?
Instead of looking at specific metrics, you need to take a holistic view of the customer using a Customer Health value. Health definitions should incorporate several KPIs and variables, such as business outcomes, lifecycle stage, product usage, license utilization, support tickets and other relevant information.
In these slides presented during our webinar, you'll learn how to build an effective health model to measure real business outcomes, drive retention and increase revenue. Presented by Jill Rubin, CMO of Totango, and Isabelle Rochon, Director of Customer Success from iPerceptions, a Totango customer.
This slide introduces viewers to Jira Service Management software by Atlassian. The slide contains information about different roles in Jira Service Management, issues, and step-by-step process for setting up a Jira service management portal.
A presentation on the budget and funding of school libraries. 🏫
Lineup for this topic:
1. Why budget is needed for school library
2. How planning procedures can inform the preparation of budgets
3. What sources of funding support the school library
4. What budgeting systems are conducted in the school library
Course: LIBSCI 37 - School/Academic Librarianship
Teacher: Sarah Mae Salares
Building a Digital Products Portfolio for Real Business ResultsApigee | Google Cloud
Today's enterprise strives to deliver exceptional customer experience, business process efficiency, and customer profitability. Given an enterprise's existing set of products, how do you define a portfolio of digital products to drive innovation and deliver real business results? How does business strategy shape a digital products portfolio? What technical and organizational processes & structures are common among successful digital products?
Join Michael Leppitsch and Dan Tortorici for a discussion of what a digital products portfolio looks like, how a portfolio is shaped by your business strategy and by your consumer, and how a robust digital products portfolio leads to customer adoption, satisfaction, and profitability.
Join to discuss:
- Digital products and how they shape customer experience and behavior
- Influences that inform and shape successful digital product portfolios
- Common traits and patterns in successful digital products
https://www.wrike.com/blog/tag/okr/ - OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is a planning and goal setting technique made famous by Intel and Google. OKRs represent aggressive goals and define the measurable steps you’ll take towards achieving those goals. This presentation walks you through why and how you can use OKRs to power your business.
As product managers and product owners, we make a myriad of decisions—from shaping the product strategy to deciding the detailed functionality of our products. But do we make all these decisions effectively? And do we always secure the necessary buy-in? This slide deck wants to helps you make better decisions. It discusses five common decision rules and explains when to apply them.
Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular leadership process for setting, communicating and monitoring quarterly goals and results in organizations. I have summarized the overview of OKR and key points to implement to an organization through my experience to launch it to my company.
lecture of Fe Angela M. Verzosa for presentation before the Conference on Library Management in the Philippine Setting: Principles and Best Practices, Villa Caceres Hotel, Naga City, August 16-17, 2012
Lincoln Murphy - Endeavor - August 2017 - The Ultimate Growth Engine: Using C...Lincoln Murphy
On August 16, 2017, Lincoln Murphy did a webinar for Endeavor and presented these slides, showcasing The Ultimate Growth Engine: Using Customer Success to Expand Revenue, Increase Profit, and Improve the Value of Your Company.
In this presentation, you will know about the role and responsibilities of an Agile Business Analyst? What is the context and need for an Agile business Analyst
This is adapted from our workshop at Mind the Product/London 2017. In this full-day session, we talked through the purposes of a roadmap and a process for establishing your product's vision, gaining alignment with your stakeholders, validating themes, and presenting to upper level execs in order to maximize your team's impact.
How to Build an Effective Customer Health ModelTotango
Your customers’ success is critical to your business. But how do you define and measure their success? Should you look at the number of support tickets, rate of adoption, revenue per customer, churn rate, net promoter score, or customer lifetime value?
Instead of looking at specific metrics, you need to take a holistic view of the customer using a Customer Health value. Health definitions should incorporate several KPIs and variables, such as business outcomes, lifecycle stage, product usage, license utilization, support tickets and other relevant information.
In these slides presented during our webinar, you'll learn how to build an effective health model to measure real business outcomes, drive retention and increase revenue. Presented by Jill Rubin, CMO of Totango, and Isabelle Rochon, Director of Customer Success from iPerceptions, a Totango customer.
This slide introduces viewers to Jira Service Management software by Atlassian. The slide contains information about different roles in Jira Service Management, issues, and step-by-step process for setting up a Jira service management portal.
A presentation on the budget and funding of school libraries. 🏫
Lineup for this topic:
1. Why budget is needed for school library
2. How planning procedures can inform the preparation of budgets
3. What sources of funding support the school library
4. What budgeting systems are conducted in the school library
Course: LIBSCI 37 - School/Academic Librarianship
Teacher: Sarah Mae Salares
Building a Digital Products Portfolio for Real Business ResultsApigee | Google Cloud
Today's enterprise strives to deliver exceptional customer experience, business process efficiency, and customer profitability. Given an enterprise's existing set of products, how do you define a portfolio of digital products to drive innovation and deliver real business results? How does business strategy shape a digital products portfolio? What technical and organizational processes & structures are common among successful digital products?
Join Michael Leppitsch and Dan Tortorici for a discussion of what a digital products portfolio looks like, how a portfolio is shaped by your business strategy and by your consumer, and how a robust digital products portfolio leads to customer adoption, satisfaction, and profitability.
Join to discuss:
- Digital products and how they shape customer experience and behavior
- Influences that inform and shape successful digital product portfolios
- Common traits and patterns in successful digital products
https://www.wrike.com/blog/tag/okr/ - OKR (Objectives and Key Results) is a planning and goal setting technique made famous by Intel and Google. OKRs represent aggressive goals and define the measurable steps you’ll take towards achieving those goals. This presentation walks you through why and how you can use OKRs to power your business.
As product managers and product owners, we make a myriad of decisions—from shaping the product strategy to deciding the detailed functionality of our products. But do we make all these decisions effectively? And do we always secure the necessary buy-in? This slide deck wants to helps you make better decisions. It discusses five common decision rules and explains when to apply them.
Objectives and Key Results (OKR) is a popular leadership process for setting, communicating and monitoring quarterly goals and results in organizations. I have summarized the overview of OKR and key points to implement to an organization through my experience to launch it to my company.
lecture of Fe Angela M. Verzosa for presentation before the Conference on Library Management in the Philippine Setting: Principles and Best Practices, Villa Caceres Hotel, Naga City, August 16-17, 2012
This presentation is step by step guide to market feasibility report. How to write market feasibility report. The factors and forces affecting the market. How the market can move. How are target market and their buying behaviour.
The role and responsibilities of the project manager ProofHub
For aspiring project managers, this slide brings an insight to the roles and responsibilities that a manager needs to perform. So let’s take a look at what it is about being a project manager:
Ideas have been the driving force of humanity. From a simple circular wheel carved from rock back in the stone ages to the first airplanes and telephones, innovative ideas have sparked off revolutionary changes in society. Now in this competitive world, ideas have become more important to us than actions. Companies have begun asking designers to generate solutions that meet the needs and desires of the consumer.
As such, there was a need to streamline and increase the efficiency of producing and sharing ideas within teams. This gave birth to several idea generation techniques, which allowed everyone to play a part in the creative process, a role allotted strictly to designers and engineers for the last few years.
Idea generation techniques meant anyone could participate in creating new ideas. It allowed people to share and build up on existing solutions, to foresee future problems, and essentially, to think big in terms of design. It brought different specializations together to create a more diverse think-tank that can tackle problems from several perspectives.
This report is divided into three parts.
First, we shall look into several idea generation techniques, both popular ones and the uncommon ones, question their uses and value by providing examples of products developed using the specific techniques.
Second, we discuss whether idea generation methods and techniques are important in coming up with new ideas? Are they the driving factor in generating ideas?
Lastly, we conclude with our personal view on idea generation techniques, along with stating which methods, if any, would we prefer to use.
Towards the end we aim to achieve a better understand of the creative thinking process as a whole and how to effectively solve all issues, design or otherwise.
The slides provides an overview on the planning phase of the project plan development. It also provides an introduction on the contents and forms of a project work plan
Management : is the process of using organizational resources to achieve organizational goals through Planning, Organizing, Controlling and leading.
It is thus, a set of activities directed at an organization’s resources with the aim of achieving organizational goals in an efficient and effective manner.
Sharing the basics of Project Management - which should be helpful for every project team member.
Often Designers are known to work in their silos and talk their own lingo. It's increasingly important for Design & UX folks to understand overall Project Management & Processes.
This should help propel the case for Design focused execution of projects.
Think Like a Project Manager... Act Like a Library LeaderEmily Clasper
Think Like a Project Manager... Act Like a Library Leader
A presentation for the Annual Meeting of the American Library Association 2015, San Francisco, California. Presentation Date: Monday, June 29th, 3:00 - 4:00 pm. http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29859
Full presentation forthcoming
#alaac15
Building a Learning Culture From the Inside Out - ALA Annual 2014Emily Clasper
ALA Annual 2014 Presentation by Emily Clasper and Toby Greenwalt
Session Information: http://ala14.ala.org/node/14451
Libraries are quickly moving from being repositories for content to full-fledged incubators for new ideas. Using technological tools, innovative spaces, and creative programming, libraries are well-positioned to become an even bigger part of the community’s creative process.
Join a panel of library change agents as they examine strategies for kickstarting a culture of innovation in your library - for your staff and patrons alike. We’ll look at examples both in and out of libraries, address challenges, and discuss what it takes to bring creativity out in the open. Audience participation will be involved.
Sponsored by PLA (Public Library Association)
This fun little presentation was put together by Emily Clasper, Tim Sicurella, and Nicole Turzillo for the Public Libraries Luncheon at the Innovative Users Group 2014 meeting in Deroit, MI. This rapid-fire presentation showcased a variety of fun, useful mobile apps attendees might be interested in.
What Staff Training Program? Minimum Investment, Maximum Impact Staff Education Strategies
Providing staff with the training and support they need to excel is one of the hardest challenges faced by library managers, especially when time is precious and funds are low. At this session, participants will join in lively discussion and get practical advice for building effective staff training and development programs with limited resources.
Presentation for the Alaska Library Association Conference 2014 #akla
Technology Trends for 2014 and Beyond: What’s Hot, What’s Cool, What’s Coming Up Next
Feel like you can’t keep up with the latest and greatest in tech trends? What do we, as information professionals, need to pay attention to in the world of technology? What can we expect to impact us in the coming months and years? Join us to discuss some of the newest tech trends, get a sneak peek at some things we may encounter soon, and try to make sense of what this could mean for the future of our libraries.
Presented for Alaska Library Association Conference 2014 #akla
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
This slide is special for master students (MIBS & MIFB) in UUM. Also useful for readers who are interested in the topic of contemporary Islamic banking.
Synthetic Fiber Construction in lab .pptxPavel ( NSTU)
Synthetic fiber production is a fascinating and complex field that blends chemistry, engineering, and environmental science. By understanding these aspects, students can gain a comprehensive view of synthetic fiber production, its impact on society and the environment, and the potential for future innovations. Synthetic fibers play a crucial role in modern society, impacting various aspects of daily life, industry, and the environment. ynthetic fibers are integral to modern life, offering a range of benefits from cost-effectiveness and versatility to innovative applications and performance characteristics. While they pose environmental challenges, ongoing research and development aim to create more sustainable and eco-friendly alternatives. Understanding the importance of synthetic fibers helps in appreciating their role in the economy, industry, and daily life, while also emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and innovation.
A workshop hosted by the South African Journal of Science aimed at postgraduate students and early career researchers with little or no experience in writing and publishing journal articles.
Operation “Blue Star” is the only event in the history of Independent India where the state went into war with its own people. Even after about 40 years it is not clear if it was culmination of states anger over people of the region, a political game of power or start of dictatorial chapter in the democratic setup.
The people of Punjab felt alienated from main stream due to denial of their just demands during a long democratic struggle since independence. As it happen all over the word, it led to militant struggle with great loss of lives of military, police and civilian personnel. Killing of Indira Gandhi and massacre of innocent Sikhs in Delhi and other India cities was also associated with this movement.
Unit 8 - Information and Communication Technology (Paper I).pdfThiyagu K
This slides describes the basic concepts of ICT, basics of Email, Emerging Technology and Digital Initiatives in Education. This presentations aligns with the UGC Paper I syllabus.
Read| The latest issue of The Challenger is here! We are thrilled to announce that our school paper has qualified for the NATIONAL SCHOOLS PRESS CONFERENCE (NSPC) 2024. Thank you for your unwavering support and trust. Dive into the stories that made us stand out!
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Good morning!
Today we’re going to dive right in to some of the basic concepts involved in Project Management.
Teaching a group all of PM in one morning would be like asking someone to teach people all of cataloging in 2 hours…
So today we’re going to focus on just the initial steps to the Planning process
We’re going to go quickly, so rest assured that everything I talk about today will be online later on Slideshare… eclasper1 Including
This presentation was brought to you by the letter P
Many of the basics you need to remember for starting out your projects are P words
What is a project?
What makes a project a success?
ALL THREE
This does not mean you can’t adjust your plan…
Every project has Project Constraints that have to be considered in order to reach project success
Usually three “Triple Constraint” – here expanded to include Scope – quality and completeness
The trick is to figure out which of these three is the Driving Constraint – the one that is set in stone (Hint - not always $)
Now that we have an idea of what I’m talking about with projects,
What kinds of things constitute projects in libraries? Things you have tackled?
What makes projects hard to do in a library setting?
Caveats about PM literature when working in a library environment:
Not profit driven, so equations sometimes not as meaningful
Substitute “Profit” with “Value to Patrons” (subjective!!)
Measurement harder
Non-profit PM is notoriously harder (funding, regulations, etc)
All of these considerations need to be handled by the PM
Are you a Project Manager?
What makes a good project manager? List traits and skills
Command authority
“Quick Sifting” abilities - prioritizing
Goal/outcomes oriented
Communication skills
Detail oriented
Motivator
Change Positive
Delegation
Big Picture translated to Little for getting things done
Documentation
Adherence to plans
Logic
Organization
Empathy
Analytical
Creative
Problem Solver
Problem Anticipator
Resourcefulness
Circle the traits that make a good reference librarian
Who should be assigned as a PM?
Choose the right PM and give them authority
Focus for today: PLANNING
The most important stage in the PM process IMHO
Get the plan in place, and FOLLOW IT
Plans should include plans to change it
Advocate for a formal process with written documentation
What happens without a solid plan for your project?
RISK
Project Lifecycle Phases
Concentrating on the Planning part makes the rest easier and sets up for success
Not linear, though. Lots of overlap
Things to notice:
Planning represents the most amount of work FOR THE PM
Does not end when the Execution starts
Shifts into closing processes near end
Planning begins in initiation
So where do we start
DO NOT JUST START DOING THINGS OR ASSIGNING STUFF
I tend to begin by etting as much info as I can about the project and then locking myself in my office
What does good project planning entail? – this and more, but these are the bare bones basics
IN THIS ORDER
Know what you need done
Know what needs to be done to get there
Know what you need to have on hand to do this
Know how this will lay out in terms of getting it all done
Common mistakes:
Starting with resources
Starting with Schedule
Always begin with the Project Definition! >>>>>
Always begin with your PURPOSE
Do not take this for granted – it is the basis for EVERYTHING
This is where we begin any project – define what we need to do
Mission = Purpose – Can be a one line statement
Goals – Outcome we want to strive for, longer term, broader ideas of what should be accomplished. Can be realized in many ways
Objectives – Specific ways to meet the stated goals. Deliverables, measureable outcomes
Goals – Outcome we want to strive for, longer term, broader ideas of what should be accomplished. Can be realized in many ways
Objectives – Specific ways to meet the stated goals. Deliverables, measureable outcomes
Here is a tiny slice of what that might look like. Many more Goals, Objectives, requirements in the real situation…
Goals are the main things you NEED to happen
Objectives are the way you plan to reach the goals
SMART – Specific Measureable, Attainable, Relevant, Time Bound
Requirements are the things that must be done to realize the objectives
Get more and more specific
These are later broken into tasks – which can then be assigned resources…
Activity – Defining Purpose
Select a sample project
Small groups of 4/5
WORKSHEET
State the purpose of the project. One sentence.
Define One GOAL for your project
Define 2 OBJECTIVES for that goal
Just a few rough ideas for your Req’s
Discuss what the groups came up with - this is the basis of your project
Once you have this, it can be written into a document for the approval of the boss… approval of this document gives the PM AUTHORITY to get these things done.
BREAK
Once you have that initial project charter approved, you now have permission and authority to DO IT.
But there’s a lot more to be planned.
The rest of the planning revolves around 3 P’s: People, Product, and Process
You have a well defined purpose. The other 3 Ps always serve the Purpose, and must each be accounted for carefully.
We’re a people based business
Questions to ask
Use the example project to discuss this
List the stakeholders up front for discussion
For everyone, managing expectations is the real underlying factor
Everyone involved has expectations of how a project will impact them, and the PM needs to make sure that these expectations are reasonable, correct, and addressed
Deliver on expectations
Ways to do this
Activity –
Brainstorm a Stakeholder List for our sample project
Convert into a RACI Matrix up front with a few things that we know will need to be done
Add Involvement and impact levels – involved/impacted, positive/negative, degree, considerations
Use these to develop Communication Charts – Who, What info, what format, how often, etc. EXPECTATIONS
Templates online
Communication is complicated
Do the yarn thing – communication within a project team.
Extend to the “public” in the rest of the room lol
This is why you need a communication plan
Communication plan – defines who gets info, how it’s delivered, level of detail, frequency, communication milestones, tool used
ALL ABOUT MANAGING EXPECTATIONS
Moving on to thinking about the product – We’ve already started this!!
Fleshing out the Requirements to include some definition of what Deliverables will be included
With the basic idea approved, you can take some time to define clearly what will need to be in place for the COMPLETED PRODUCT to be acceptable.
Requirements are based on what is necessary for the Goals and Objectives to be Reached
Deliverables are the concrete things you end up with at the end of a project. Take time to define these carefully – what is necessary for a deliverable to be accepted as complete? What are the minimums for accepting a deliverable?
Use these to maintain expectations with vendors, sponsors, stakeholders
Checklists good for product acceptance of simple stuff
Traceability matrix takes it further, and relates requirements to specific goals and objectives, showing interconnections – helps prioritize
Moving from the WHO of People and the WHAT or Product to the HOW of process
Many people in libraries skip right to this part… NO!
Activities Register – What tasks need to be done to get to these requirements
Write them all down!
For our sample project – what’s going to be on the activities register? Call them out!!
Have people write them on the reverse of their handout
Do some on post its
This is your scope of work
Activities defined as necessary to fulfill the requirements
No “While we’re at it”
No “Wouldn’t it be even better if”
No “above and beyond”
A word about scope creep
This will kill your project, increasing budget, time, etc.
Find ways to handle “creep” requests diplomatically
Account for ways to add activities without adding creep
Always refer back to requirements. If it’s not required to reach a goal, don’t do it.
Put the activities in order. Can you do this with your list?
What things need to be sequenced?
Put some post its in sequence to show
WBS gives sequence & divides into work packages
Adding time and resources to the sequence gives you
What does a Gantt chart do for you?
Takes a sequence of activities
Gives them a temporal element
Establishes dependencies
Allows assignment of resources
Estimation tool that allows you to???
Your roadmap for getting the project done with success
Don’t forget the contingency plans! How to make failures into opportunities
How are you going to address these kinds of things
Ask yourself about the potential risks you may face and how you’ll deal with them
Identify areas prone to risk, and you can plan for it
The plan is the key – then move ahead
Have a well defined process in place to avoid creep