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Top 11 Cities for Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Shanghai has some huge projects underway including: The Shanghai Urban Rail Transit Expansion: piling work on the new high-speed line began in November 2020. The 2020 Tokyo Olympics ( budget : US$5.9bn) were postponed as a result of the global pandemic, but investment in infrastructure and megaprojects continues.

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Business Analyst vs Project Manager: The Differences To Know

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the PMI Business Analysis Practice Standard, business analysis is defined like this: The set of activities performed to identify the business need and recommend relevant solutions; and to elicit, document, and manage requirements. The responsibilities of a BA and PM on a project. What does a business analyst do? Interpersonal skills.

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Go slow (to go fast later)

Kiron Bondale

The January 2020 issue of PM Network provide a case study for one of the 2019 PMI Project of the Year finalists, the Société de transport de Montréal’s (STM) eight-year project to modernize the underground Montréal rail system. While this would be considered a small mega-project (CA$2.1

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15 Easy-to-Do Types of Professional Development

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But the budget is tight. Get certified Getting a professional certification can help your career — studies like the PMI Project Management Salary Survey (2020) show that certification is directly linked to earning more money and it certainly can’t hurt your employment prospects.

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How to Become a Project Manager in 2020

Workamajig

A project, as defined by PMI - the largest organization of project managers in the world - is “ a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result”. Manage the project’s budget. PMI Agile Certificate Practitioner (PMI-ACP). Managing a project budget. Organize the project into tasks.

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Top 10 Project Management Conferences for 2020

Appfluence

Top 10 Project Management Conferences for 2020. Project management is a constantly developing role within companies and between projects. The Resource Planning Summit 2020. The PMO 2020 Conference. 2020 Project Management Symposium. Change Management 2020 Conference. PMI Global Conference 2020.

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Evidence-based Management: Gathering the metrics

Scrum.org

Updated to reflect the 2020 Scrum Guide! delivered on budget. If you take another look, as the Standish Group in Boston has, at the above traditional measures of success (used both by PMI and Prince2) you find that this measure equates to very little value to the customers. with the features that were required upfront.