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What is Project Life Cycle and What Are its Phases

ProProfs Project Management

You’ve probably heard about the project life cycle, and here we’ll be taking a closer look at this topic. . What is Project Life Cycle. Right from smaller investments to multi-million dollar projects, it requires specific and strict plans that everyone in the team should stick to. .

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Google Project Management: Professional Certificate Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The Coursera Google Project Management Certificate is aimed at complete beginners, but it quickly starts to dive into a range of topics that provide a good refresher for early and mid-career project managers. The notes feature in the Coursera platform How long does the Google Project Management Certificate take?

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PRINCE2: The Project Management Method Explained

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You should look at what happened on past projects because that helps mitigate risk on your current project. PRINCE2® encourages you to dig into lessons learned all through the project life cycle to help you make better choices. Document lessons learned for future projects. Where will PRINCE2® take you?

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Dependency Mapping Identifying and documenting the relationships and dependencies between project tasks or activities. Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability. of a project.

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Time is Money: The Importance of Earned Value Management

MPUG

In my previous article , I discussed the importance of a baseline, and how, without one, a PM doesn’t have a yardstick, per se, to measure with. Project Management presents many tools and techniques for the management of a successful project. To understand truly that ‘time is money,’ you need to use EVM in your projects.

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Project Selection: Use These 8 Selection Methods for Better Strategic Results

ProjectManager.com

All projects are risky, and some are very complex. Determining the feasibility of any project can take time and a lot of research. This process is done in what is called a feasibility study, which is part of the project initiation stage. This method is used when evaluating two projects. Scoring Models.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Scrum works within an agile project management framework, though there have been attempts to scale Scrum to fit larger organizations. The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Get work management software that fits with every methodology.