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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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Do you follow these five rules before your kick-off meeting?
Interested in finding out more about project kick-off meeting rules? Used in most organizations to usher the start of a new project, the kick-off meetings have become a key if …
Business CommunicationChange ManagementFeature ArticleGeneral Articles Related to Managing ProjectsProject Management
Project communication plan: How to effectively communicate change
by Paul Kesler
Knowing how to effectively communicate change is vital to being able to establish a solid project communication plan. Here’s how to effectively communicate change. “The single biggest problem in communication …
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Projects as Profit Centers
In this podcast, Cornelius Fichtner and Oliver F. Lehmann discuss projects as profit centers. They discuss how the world of project management is undergoing a fundamental change – a collaborative …
Cost ManagementFeature ArticleGeneral Articles Related to Managing ProjectsProject ManagementQuality ManagementResource ManagementStrategic Planning
Tips for creating a detailed quality management plan
In this PMWorld 360 video, Alison Mills-Long discusses how to create a detailed quality management plan, and what should be included in the plan. She provides details on each component …
Agile Methodology and Other Project MethodologiesFeature ArticleGeneral Articles Related to Managing ProjectsProject Management
4 Key similarities between Kanban and “The 4 disciplines of execution”
by Jan Schiller
I just finished reading the book, “The 4 Disciplines of Execution” (McChesney, Covey & Huling, 2016). As I was preparing to facilitate an introductory Kanban session, I noticed the similarities …
Agile Methodology and Other Project MethodologiesFeature ArticleGeneral Articles Related to Managing ProjectsOrganizational CultureProject Management
How to measure business agility?
“Success today requires the agility and drive to constantly rethink, reinvigorate, react, and reinvent.” Bill Gates What is business agility? Agility involves adopting a new mindset and a new way …
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7 Tips on how to improve your project team culture with affinity groups
by Jan Schiller
I just attended Colin Ellis’s keynote presentation, which provided wonderful advice on how to build the strongest project team. I took away several useful techniques, one of which was to …
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The one inescapable risk of managing projects
In project management, there’s one inescapable risk. I’ve just started a new project, and yes, the same risk is on the list as it was in the risk register for …
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Why should you start a lesson learned log at the beginning of a project?
Some call it a log, some call it a register but regardless of what name you give it, understanding how important it is to have a lesson learned tracking tool …