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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Essential read A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) £54.00 A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (also known as the PMBOK® Guide -- 7th Edition) is core reading as prep for PMI exams. OK, let’s get to it: here’s the list of project management artifacts. Documents are documents.

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A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Earned Value Management

MPUG

EVM concepts were initiated over fifty years ago by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to support their control processes with large defense acquisition programs. Air Force defined the criteria for their acquisition projects which included the basic concepts of EVM. In 1965, the U.S.

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Demystifying the PMBOK Process Groups

Wrike

Generally speaking, projects require five process groups — initiating, planning, executing, monitoring and controlling, and closing. These are known as the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge) process groups. The Project Management Institute (PMI) created the PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge).

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Project Executing: A "How to" Guide

Project Pulse Journal

Michael Shick, MSPM, PMP, CSM You've just been handed the reins of a significant project, and now is the time to begin execution. It's a daunting task, especially if this is your first time steering the ship of a major initiative. But, here's the thing - every expert project manager was once in your shoes. Now go get’em!

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What is ROM and how to calculate it (with example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

However, back in the real world, we don’t have to do exactly what the PMBOK® Guide says, although it’s useful to have those figures in the back of your mind for your PMI exam. Let’s look at an example to see how it would work in a project budget. ROM example Let’s say that we’re in the Project Initiation phase.

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