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What is Project Management

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What is a Project The Project Management Institutes (PMI) PMBOK defines a project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.” Project Management as a Profession As a Profession , it has its roots in the 1950s and 1960s when the U.S.

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How to Actually Develop a Project Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

It integrates and consolidates all of the subsidiary plans and baselines, and other information necessary to manage the project.”. Subsidiary Project Plans The Project Management Institute (PMI) highlights ten Knowledge Areas. Each of these areas includes a subsidiary plan such as the project scope management plan.

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A Short History of Project Management

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By default, these people were doing early project management by obtaining/transporting the heavy blocks of stones and related materials (procurement and quality management) and acquiring and scheduling the slave workers (resource and communications management) to do their work. PMI on the scene. Boy, I was wrong!

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The Functions of a Project Management Office

Project Pulse Journal

Here are three common types of PMOs from across various sectors: Supportive PMO Industry Application - A supportive PMO is common in industries where projects require flexibility and autonomy, such as IT and software development enterprises. Paper presented at PMI® Global Congress 2014—EMEA, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Webinar Recap: Project Performance Measurement – Part 1: Overview Of Project Performance Measurements

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Kyle: Today’s session is eligible for one PMI, PDU in the technical category, and the code for claiming that with PMI is on the screen now. Well, looking at the PMI pulse of the profession 2016, 45% of all projects experienced scope expansion or scope creep or gold plating. That’s what we call hybrid in most cases.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

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Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) : A certificate in project management basics offered by Project Management Institute (PMI). A CAPM is often a basic requirement for project management roles. While it's mostly used for software projects, it can also be used for non-software projects.