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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project managers use the five project management phases to structure projects and lead them from beginning to end.

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

A Project Management Office (PMO) isn't just about oversight; it's about empowering your projects to deliver real value. With the PMO structure, you can achieve higher success rates, better resource management, and improved stakeholder satisfaction. What is a Project Management Office?

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5 Governance Steps for Distributed Project Team Management

LiquidPlanner

Managing a distributed project team takes real skill and a definite commitment to putting a governance structure in place that enables success. This is a cardinal rule that I learned firsthand nearly two decades ago managing project teams in Korea, and it stuck with me through my career in the military.

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9 Powerful Strategies to Manage Multiple Projects

Project Bliss

As a project manager, you’ll most likely manage multiple projects. And you’ll have to give each one the focus and energy to ensure it succeeds. It takes incredible organizational skills to manage conflicting workloads and competing priorities. You need a reliable system and tools to help manage it all.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

All companies desire to remain competitive and continuously improve their project management performance by becoming more efficient and more effective in the execution of their project management processes. The internal organizational units can also be responsible for evaluating external literature related to project management.

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Inspiring Women in Project Management: Sarah Coleman

Rebel’s Guide to PM

This year sees me interviewing 10 amazing women in project management to celebrate blogging for 10 years. Now in its third edition, it’s a practical book covering engagement, communication, vision and strategy. I caught up with her to find out how leadership has changed project management forever.

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7 Steps to Deal With Scope Creep (What is Scope Creep and How Can You Avoid It?)

Planio

Every project manager has heard these words and felt a chill run down their spine. With just a few words, a simple, easy-to-execute project plan can be suddenly transformed into the project management equivalent of an M.C. Scope creep isn’t just bad for project managers. How does scope creep happen in project management?