For many project teams out there in various organizations, risk identification is just another process that we accomplish in order to keep risk from undermining our project management efforts. It …
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 company having trouble attracting and recruiting top project managers? Here’s the answer.
It’s estimated that employers will need to fill close to 2.2 million new project roles annually by 2027. With over 1,000,000 certified Project Management Professionals (PMPs) internationally, competition for project …
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Does #noestimates really mean no estimates?
by Jan Schiller
When I learned more about the #noestimates movement, primarily through articles authored by Woody Zuill, Neil Killick, and Ronald Jeffries, I was really intrigued. I have yet to manage a …
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Off-script | How going off-script can help project managers adapt to change
How can project managers adapt to change better? Consider going off-script. Lately, in jiu-jitsu, I have noticed my game starting to resemble my professor’s game. Because he teaches a curriculum, …
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Best Practices Implementation: What Are They + 8 Steps For Success
What are best practices implementations, and how do you develop and deploy them in your projects? Best practices are typically guidelines or standards used in a specific area of practice …
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What is the measure of a successful project?
Historically speaking, project managers have always seen the measure of a project’s success related to what you might have come to know as the “iron triangle” or quadruple constraints. A …
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How to prepare for a project kick-off meeting and what to cover
Project kick-off meetings are critical to a successful project launch and not having a plan in place for how to structure the meeting can have the project start off on …
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Do you know the difference between scope and requirements?
by Jan Schiller
Scope and requirements are interrelated concepts. Projects in your portfolio should be creating and managing both. What is the difference between the two? Why do you need both? Why is …
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5 Reasons why you should be using risk management on every project?
There are still a great number of projects led by competent Project Managers (PMs) out there that do not use risk management to its full capacity or intent. Most of …
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Creating a project charter for a Six Sigma project
What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma is a business process improvement methodology designed to improve business processes by decreasing variability and defects. The term Sigma is used to describe the quality of …