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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

And yes, agile project management artifacts get a mention. The 9 types of artifacts are: Strategy Logs and registers Plans Hierarchy charts Baselines Visual data and information Reports Agreements and contracts Other – a bucket category for anything else. Visual data and information. Let’s look at each of those in more detail.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

The 9 types of artifacts There are 9 types of artifacts, and every project management document or thing you create falls into one of these categories (not least because the last one is a giant bucket for everything else, as you’ll see). The point of having visual data sources is that they make it easier to understand the information.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Continuous Improvement The ongoing effort to improve a project process, product, or service to achieve better results. Cost Estimation The process of estimating project costs is done by leveraging historical data, expert judgment, or quantitative models. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability.

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A Complete Guide to PMIS

ProjectManager.com

Without a way of organizing all information a project is doomed to fail. How can some many data channels be organized so that they’re delivered to the right party and that person knows that they’re being notified? That’s what PMIS comes in, which is an acronym for project management information system.

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Time is Money: The Importance of Earned Value Management

MPUG

EVM in Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project has built-in fields for all EVM measurements and can be calculated at any point of time in the project life cycle. I look forward to starting a series of articles on how to use EVM in Microsoft Project, including best practices.

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Closing A Project with MS Project

MPUG

The default Entry table of MS Project doesn’t show various variance fields, although you can add those fields/columns into the table and get the displayed view. To see the start and finish variances, switch to Variance table by going to View tab > Data group > Tables drop-down menu. These should be inactivated as you close the project.

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Project Management Process & Phases

ProProfs Project Management

According to the PMBOK guide, which is considered the bible for project managers, project management is scientifically done by managing project documents through 49 processes that are grouped into five project phases. . The performance measurement data that is sent out to stakeholders comes from this phase. .

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