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What are project milestones? How to set & track milestones

Planio

Having many significant milestones bunched together may create bottlenecks or risks to your timeline, budget, or resource controls. The best project teams are those who consistently maintain momentum and good morale. To do that, project managers must look for chances to celebrate success. Identifying bottlenecks.

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Google Project Management: Professional Certificate Review

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The courses are wide-ranging and cover everything from project management methods including agile methods, risk management, the project life cycle, project management tools, project implementation and change management. Each course is made up of several modules that take you into the various topics.

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Free project management certifications

Moira Alexander

Results-Based Project Management: Monitoring and Evaluation - teaches how to use a results-based approach to design and manage public sector programs that deliver tangible benefits and optimize the use of resources. It also includes insight into the project life cycle plus analysis, planning, design, and evaluation.

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How to Solve the 5 Top Challenges of Manufacturing Projects

LiquidPlanner

Encourage teams to estimate their projects as realistically as possible. Insert buffer-time and account for risks that might occur. In other words, a longer inception phase with some trial-and-error, and with the view of driving down risk and uncertainty early on can be a win-win for all parties. READ THE CASE STUDY.

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Review Agile Governance and Audit

Henny Portman

The author follows a project life cycle from idea towards a usable product including governance and control. Based on an audit objective related to the position in the life cycle, you get the main risks to consider, the audit approach including a set of questions and a conclusion. A case study is included.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

These outputs may consist of documents, documentation standards and templates, plans, reports, and reporting guidelines created to support the management and execution of a project. Artifacts serve as references for current and future projects by documenting the progress, decisions, and outcomes of a project's life cycle.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Risk Management is essential for development and production programs. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Effective Risk Management 2 nd Edition , Edmund Conrow, AIAA, 2003. Risk Management Papers. “A 3, March 2002.