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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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This will help an organization assess and improve its project management capabilities by ranking the organization based on five maturity levels: initial, managed, defined, quantitatively managed and optimizing. Project Scope Management Here you’re defining and outlining all the work of the project.

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The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

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PMBOK stands for Project Management Body of Knowledge. It is a set of standard terminology and guidelines for project management published and updated by The Project Management Institute (PMI). What Are the Project Management Knowledge Areas? These are the chronological phases that every project goes through.

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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

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Project Planning Project planning is organizing tasks, the resources needed to complete them, costs and schedules to deliver a product or service by the deadline. Project planning is the second stage in project management, after initiation and before execution, monitoring and controlling and closing.

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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

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To begin, let’s look at the five project management process groups defined in the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), published by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the leading industry trade group. If the project is considered viable and valuable, it is pursued. Closing Phase. Risk control.

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The ISO 9001 definition is very similar to APM’s, as is the definition in the PMI PMBOK ®. Make sure that you are thinking realistically about estimates and the likelihood of risk affecting your ability to deliver. Consider adding contingency time to the schedule if your project is unusual or innovative (for your organization).

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How to Actually Develop a Project Management Plan

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Work Breakdown Structure – create a hierarchical decomposition or outline of the scope of work to achieve the project objectives and to create the deliverables. Cost Baseline – approved version of the project budget. Subsidiary Project Plans The Project Management Institute (PMI) highlights ten Knowledge Areas.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate.