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What Is the Project Management Life Cycle?

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What is the project life cycle? It’s everything the project goes through, from inception to close. Each step in the project management life cycle, which consists of distinct phases used in traditional project management, is explained in this post. The Project Management Life Cycle.

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Risk Analysis 101: How to Analyze Project Risk

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Though this process starts at the beginning of the project, it’s an iterative process and continues throughout the project life cycle. Finally, risk management is the overall process that project managers use to minimize and manage risk. This post was updated December 2019). What Is Risk Management?

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Time is Money: The Importance of Earned Value Management

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Microsoft Project as a tool can help project managers to perform Earned Value Analysis and Earned Value Management for their projects. MS Project 2019 Professional, as well as its earlier versions like MS Project 2016 and MS Project 2013, fully support EVM.

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How to Write a Business Case

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Create a Schedule: Make a timeline for the project by estimating how long it will take to get each task completed. Communication Plan: Have milestones for check-ins and status updates, as well as determining how stakeholders will stay aware of the progress over the project life cycle. This post updated December 2019).

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5 Steps to Project Closure (Checklist Included)

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You’ll have to release resources, archive documents and don’t forget to acknowledge the project success with a party or some type of celebration. Steps to Closing a Project. Taking the time to have a postmortem after the project closure is complete puts you and your team in position to start the next project from a more informed place.

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The 11 Best Project Management Certifications to Consider in 2019

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This project management certification draws on multiple frameworks to provide a general project management competency. You can expect to learn about resource management, the project life cycle and project constraints, documentation protocols, communication best practices, and coordinating stakeholders.

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Building and Managing A Hybrid-Agile Plan with MS Project

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In fact, almost all possible Hybrid-Agile approaches can be managed within the MS Project software using its Agile features. The Agile, as well as all traditional features, are available in MS Project 2019 Online Desktop Client. 2] NEW Online Course: Mastering MS Project 2019 Agile (Scrum and Kanban), by Satya Narayan Dash. [3]

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