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Review Project Management Maturity Model Fourth Edition

Henny Portman

It briefly explains culture change and employee satisfaction, baselining capability for performance management, PMO implementation, repeated use as progress and effectiveness tool and target six-month improvement goals. In appendix A a self-assessment survey is provided to assess your own organization’s project management maturity.

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A Short History of Project Management

MPUG

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. Boy, I was wrong!

PMI 81
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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Baseline Schedule: The planned schedule of different activities in a project. This is the schedule against which project progress is measured. Benchmarking: The process of surveying similar organizations running similar projects (or relying on external surveys) to arrive at the standard or baseline for the project.