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Project Management
Project Management (PM) | All content on this page relates to the topic of PM. To find out more on this topic check out PMWorld 360 Magazine!
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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Is your software development project really Agile?
Since the authors of the “Manifesto for Agile Software Development” developed “an alternative to documentation-driven, heavyweight software development processes,” project management practitioners have adopted elements of Agile frameworks, but many …
Starting the New Year with a few new PM goals
It’s hard to believe that we started yet another year and, with it, another countdown to the next. Year after year, if you look at it, an indefinite loop or …
2 Key tools for stakeholder analysis
The importance of identifying your stakeholders (Stakeholder Analysis) at the beginning of your project is something all project managers can resonate with. A stakeholder, by definition, is anyone who is …
How to support projects and programs with strategic portfolio management
Today’s competition is getting more fierce. In addition, product life cycles are becoming shorter, and never-ending change emphasizes the importance for companies to deliver on strategic intent efficiently. In fact, …
Lean-Agile PMO
In today’s “right now” business environment, “hurry up and wait” annual planning cycles won’t do! To be fit for purpose, PMO processes deliver value faster than the competition—continuously, and certainly …
How applying the 70×10 rule to project management can help you deal with triple constraint
“It’s not the amount that counts, it’s the plan that counts” – Jim Rohn. Recently, an email caught my eye from one of my many subscriptions. The title read something …
Helping your team succeed without micromanaging
Interested in helping your team succeed without micromanaging? Telling your team what you want them to do and how to do it is the quickest way to kill innovation. Choose …
Maximize Career Advancement with Project Management Training
Do you want to take your career as a project manager to the next level? Yes? What is project management training what advice how can it advance your career? We …
How to plan a complex program
As a program is a group of related projects, planning a complex program requires the planning of all projects that compose the program. It is important to have a process …