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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters. Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. effectively and efficiently.

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Understanding the Organizational Governance System as Project Managers

Project Pulse Journal

We will explore how the project management control process and systems are the backbone of project success, providing structure, oversight, and direction to ensure that projects are executed and aligned with organizational goals and values. This supports setting up the crucial aspects of project governance components.

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT BENCHMARKING, an excellence enabling instrument

International Institute for Learning

The results must be carefully analyzed to account for cultural differences, political factors, and possibly the influence of local religions. Because of the strong behavioral influence, it is almost impossible to transpose a project management culture from one company to another. Step 3: Analyses of Results.

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Organizational Culture and Its Impact on Team Performance

ActiveCollab

Simply put, they suffer because their creativity and their performance is under the influence of drastically different organizational culture than they are used to. To understand how culture impacts team performance, we must first take a look at different types of company cultures. Controlled company culture.

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Scrum Anti-Patterns GPT

Scrum.org

Command-and-Control Culture : A culture rooted in traditional management methods, leading to top-down decisions without team consultation​​. Process: Fixed Scope and Deadlines : Insisting on fixed scopes and deadlines for projects, which conflicts with Scrum’s empirical process control​​.

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Compendium of Works to Increase Probability of Project Success

Herding Cats

Project Performance Management (#PPM). Technical Performance Measures (#TPM). Cost, Schedule, and Technical Performance Management (#CSTPM). Open Loop / Closed Loop Project Controls - project management is a closed loop control system. Project Performance Management. Management Processes (#MP).

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Risk Management in Five Easy Pieces, with Apologies to Jack

Herding Cats

Project Managers constantly seek ways to eliminate or control risk, variance, and uncertainty. Although each uncertainty type is distinct, a single project may encounter some combination of four types: Variation – comes from many small influences and yields a range of values on a particular activity. Hope is Not a Strategy.