How To Use Your RAID Log to Manage Up and Manage Down
As a project manager, are you familiar with a RAID log and the best way to use it concerning your project sponsors, stakeholders, or the leadership team? The key to using a RAID log is to use your RAID as a tool to help you engage, not as the engagement itself, and to manage project plans and ensure nothing falls through the cracks.
How to Use Your RAID Log to Bring Order Out of Chaos
RAID log management and your project / RAID reviews will transform your program management and how you manage multiple project managers' efforts. A RAID log helps you achieve the ultimate project manager badge and is an effective tracking tool for critical items. But, using your RAID can also save time out of your day for project meetings, agendas, and status reports.
How to Manage Multiple Projects with Competing Deadlines
To manage multiple projects with competing deadlines comes down to a simple resource and methodology that provides a solution that helps create structure and manage Actions, Issues, Risks, and Decisions. Keeping you focused on what you need to do today, this week, and next week to keep your projects on track.
This article is about how applying a RAID Methodology to your project will keep you focused on what you need to do today, this week, and next week to keep your project on track. Projects don’t go wrong because of the project tasks themselves. They go wrong because of unmanaged risks, out-of-control issues, forgotten action items, and poor decisions. So, it stands to reason that your RAID becomes the method and rule that you employ to research, track, and analyze the health of your project(s).
Are you a new PMP or CMPM trying to apply the proper techniques to manage your projects? A long-standing project management tool has been used for years and will save your project before it has to be rescued! RAIDLOG.com walks you through the fundamentals of a RAID log, how to create your RAID template, and how to manage your projects effectively using this methodology.
