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Project Documentation: 10 Essential Project Documents

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Creating and managing project documentation throughout the project life cycle is critical for project success, but where to start? What Is Project Documentation? The term project documentation refers to the project management documents that are created throughout the project life cycle.

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12 Free Project Planning Templates for Excel and Word

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Then you can create a project schedule, including task dependencies, project assumptions and constraints. There’s also a section that addresses the project budget, risk and change management, which is essential to stay on track. Project Charter Template A project charter is an important project planning document.

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20 Things For Your Project Management Plan [With 3 Free Templates]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How did this project come about? What are the project objectives? Reference the business case and any prior documentation. It’s always easier to reference other documents than try to reproduce them in here. Ideally you should list everything that is in the project scope in as much detail as you can.

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Project Integration Management – A Quick Guide

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A project charter contains the preliminary roles and responsibilities of the project, including the goals and objectives, and the appointing of a project manager. It is used as a reference document as the project moves forward.

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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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What Is Change Management? Process & Models Explained

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To best plan and respond to change, first, a clear definition of change management must be understood. What Is Change Management? The term change management refers to the actions, tools and models implemented to manage different types of change either at the project or organizational level.

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

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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.