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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The name is apt, as the waterfall methodology is a process in which the phases of the project flow downward. When implementing the agile methodology , project planning and work management are adaptive, evolutionary in development, seeking early delivery and are always open to change if that leads to process improvement.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Strengths-based project management is an approach to project management that focuses on the people rather than the process. In fact, the approach that has the biggest impact is to model the behavior you are looking for.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Public Sector Project Manager Selection In most government agencies, PMs were seen more so as project monitors rather than project managers. The assignment as a government project monitor was seen as an add-on to one’s normal job. Executive sponsorship was merely eyewash for government agencies.

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Records Management: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

It’s a systemic process that gives people access to the project records for future use through organization, planning and tracking throughout the project execution. When approaching records management, you need to determine the type of information that should be recorded as well as a process for recording data.

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The Growth of Value-Driven Project Management

International Institute for Learning

Perhaps the most significant reason for the slow growth of many needed project management changes was due to senior management’s desire for standardization of governance and execution for the multitude of traditional projects managed for external clients. Processes were based upon a stationary rather than moving target.

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People Versus Process

Herding Cats

At the program level and above, the choice of a people focus or a process focus is not between two competing paradigms. This is obvious but many times lost when discussing agile processes. One school emphasizes people, while the other emphasizes process. and Other's Don't , Jim Collins, Harper Collins, 2001.

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How To Motivate Your Project Team

Rebel’s Guide to PM

We do it as children, we do it as teenagers (often terrifying our parents in the process) and we do it as adults. Strengths-based project management is an approach to project management that focuses on the people rather than the process. In fact, the approach that has the biggest impact is to model the behaviour you are looking for.