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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

These are all functions of a project board (or steering group). Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. A project board provides oversight and governance for the project. What is a project steering group?

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Organizational Process Assets: What does that even mean?

Rebel’s Guide to PM

OPAs and the PMP exam Let’s face it: I first came across the term OPA while reviewing PMP exam training material. But they are not the regulatory environment, government standards, or external environmental policies or regulations. Don’t get me started on Enterprise Environmental Factors either.)

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The Roles and Responsibilities Document on Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In this article we'll look at what it is and how you can use it, and I'll share some tips on how I use it to manage my projects. For example, the project manager has a role involving leading the project, and also a role on the project board as someone responsible for project governance. I try to make sure all my projects have one.

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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

MPUG

My task was to develop guidelines and artifacts for Technology Change Management processes. A Project Management Methodology is an integral part of project governance. Organizations can choose any project management framework or methodology to establish project governance structure. Project Governance.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Reviewarticle from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. For example, the project management process groups describe the project life cycle while the 10 project management knowledge areas explain how to manage a project. Kanban Methodology.

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Why do projects fail? (Includes examples!)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Here are some high-profile failed projects: Following an internal review, Multiplex, the Australian development company responsible for the reconstruction of the Wembley Stadium, became aware that costs for the project were escalating to the point that the company would make a loss of £750 million on the project. billion to £10.9

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This article is for you! Personally, I think employers value work experience over a degree, so a degree in project management, while it will show that you have the technical and soft skills, will not ensure you a job. That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e.