353: Dangerous Risk Mistakes PMO Leaders Make Every Day with Russ Parker
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In this episode, Russ Parker discusses the critical mistakes PMO leaders make in risk management and how to improve their practices.
Welcome to the PMO Strategies Podcast + Blog, where PMO leaders become IMPACT Drivers! PMI Talent Triangle: Ways of Working Most PMOs acknowledge risk management. Very few actually practice it. There is a difference between logging risks and managing them, and that gap is quietly costing organizations the projects they cannot afford to lose. In this episode of the PMO Strategies podcast, I am joined by Russ Parker, PMP®, PMI-RMP®, PMI-ACP®, owner of 44 Risk PM and a retired U.S. Marine Corps officer. Russ draws direct parallels between military planning discipline and how project organizations should embed real risk expertise to stop operating in perpetual crisis mode and start delivering the outcomes they were hired to produce. Key Takeaways: Why risk registers get created once and never revisited, and the pattern behind it The three root causes that turn risk management into an organizational formality How project managers accidentally become fire starters instead of fire preventers What a Risk Management Professional actually does inside a PMO How AI accelerates risk identification, historical analysis, and risk workshop preparation One of the most underused tools in project…
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