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Project Documentation: 10 Essential Project Documents

ProjectManager.com

Project managers know the importance of having project documentation. Project documents must be accurate and constantly updated to keep current with the project. Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start?

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Kanban vs. Scrum: What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

The scrum methodology has been around since the mid-1980s and has been a core sub-methodology of agile since 2001 when Ken Schwaber and Mike Beedle wrote the book on it: Agile Software Development with Scrum. On the other hand, tasks can be added to a kanban board at any point of the project life cycle. What Is Scrum?

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A Complete Guide to PMIS

ProjectManager.com

What these programs do is help project managers to plan, execute and close their project. The Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) states that a PMIS is “an information system consisting of the tools and techniques used to gather, integrate, and disseminate the outputs of project management processes.

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Managing Risks and Controlling Projects: How Data-Driven Project Management Come in Useful for Multi-Project Environments

Epicflow Blog

This article is inspired by the webinar featuring Epicflow co-founder Jan Willem Tromp and professor Mario Vanhoucke based on his latest book “The Illusion of Control: Project Data, Computer Algorithms and Human Intuition for Project Management and Control”. These are not all the features of Epicflow.

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Project Resource Management: The Ultimate Guide on How to Master It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Efficient project resource management also ensures maximum billable resource utilization for profitability. Here is how: Reduce project costs – Complete visibility across the enterprise helps leverage global resources from low-cost locations. Six Project Resource Management Processes as per the PMBOK® Guide.

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Understanding and Using Resource Graph View in MS Project

MPUG

The top part has styles for overallocation, the middle styles for allocation, and the bottom styles for proposed booking. The unit will be taken from the Global settings of MS Project. Cost is the cost of assignments. This unit also will be taken from the Global settings of MS Project. The answer is yes!

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Resource Scheduling In Project Management: A Beginner’s Guide

Teamweek

Scheduling resources happens during the project planning phase but after resource allocation. Where resource allocation deals with booking resources for a project, scheduling refers to assigning resources to tasks with specific start and end dates. Project managers are responsible for scheduling resources.