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Mastering the project life cycle: Your complete guide (+ examples)

Resource Guru

The project life cycle , just like a good story, has a beginning, a middle, and (hopefully) a happy end. The beginning involves the ever-so-important planning; then comes the middle, where teams complete various tasks to move the project closer to completion; and finally, an end to review what went well and what didn’t.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

hours, personnel needed, and/or tasks) to ensure that a project can be completed on time and within budget. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters. of a project.

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How to Take Advantage of Adaptive Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

As an experienced project manager, Kanban should be one of the go-to tools. Lean Project Management Lean project management is derived from lean manufacturing principles and focuses on maximizing value by eliminating waste.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

Resource Guru

Project scope is the project manager’s best friend. It’s what we lean on throughout the project life cycle. It keeps us on the straight and narrow all the way to project success. We might think that “oh, I don’t need a project scope, I’ve done thousands of projects like this!”.

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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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From Planning to Delivery: 8 Performance Domains in PMBOK – Seventh Edition

MPUG

No one goes into work and says, “Today I’m going to manage uncertainty.” Everything you do as a project manager involves leaning into the domains to a greater or lesser extent, as you keep all the project’s balls in the air. Project work. However, the domains interact and depend on each other.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Gate : In project management terms, a 'Gate' refers to any point between phases when a decision has to be made about the next stage of the project. Gate Review: The point in a project's life cycle where the project's progress, goals, requirements, etc. Go") or abandoning it (i.e., "No