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Project Management
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PM involves the application of knowledge, skills, tools, and techniques to direct activities that will help meet the requirements of a project. There are five main processes involved in project management, they are initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and finally closing.
There are ten areas of knowledge PM relies on integration, scope, time, cost, quality, procurement, human resources, communications, risk management, and stakeholder management.
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Project Business Is A Critical Corporate Success Factor
In this podcast, Cornelis Fichtner interviews Matt Mong and Henrik Lerkenfeld about how project business is a critical component of corporate success factor. They look at the term project business …
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How to be a good mentor
In recent years PMI has published statistics indicating that at the current rate, the number of seasoned project managers will dwindle drastically in coming years; leaving the profession looking for …
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Why is managing projects hard?
Many projects are not completed on time and budget or do not deliver the intended business benefits and value even when they finish on time and budget. The data about …
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Building a positive work environment for your team
“You can’t just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them” (Ken Robinson, n.d.). …
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Choosing a framework to evaluate project proposals
Companies are increasingly using projects to manage most of their activities. Managing single projects can produce a loss of transparency and efficiency of the project outlook. To be more effective, …
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Audits as a project management governance tool
Here comes the dreaded project audit. How can we get out of this? We have all experienced this at one point or will. So, why do we fear the project …
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Project Scope Management – The Secret to Project Success: Podcast
In this podcast, Cornelius Fichtner interviews Karthik Ramamurthy about his findings on how project scope management will make or break your project. They discuss how disruptive business models, technological progress, …
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4 Goals for Successful Innovation
Companies need innovation to increase their market share and profit margin. Innovation helps companies deliver higher value to customers. The process of converting an idea into a product or service …
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Project assumptions: You Must Be a Project Manager if You Like Swiss Cheese
A few weeks ago, a stakeholder at work was complaining about how we, the general, all-encompassing WE, the project manager could never be happy with simply doing anything and that …