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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

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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 management software helps project managers stay on top of each of these process groups. Defining roles and responsibilities.

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How to Define a Workflow Process

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First you need to define a workflow process. How to Define Your Workflow. Here are three tips for defining a workflow for your project. Once you’ve defined your workflow, you’ll want to make it more efficient. In this short training video Jennifer Bridges, PMP, defines what a workflow process is.

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How to Actually Define Risk Categories

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Let’s look at how to actually define risk categories and how they can help Tom (and you). Risk categories allow you to group individual project risks for evaluating and responding to risks. How to Define Risk Categories. One effective method for defining your risk categories is the Affinity Map method.

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What Is a Project Sponsor? Defining This PM Role

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The project sponsor is that person or group who owns the project. According to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), the project sponsor is “a person or group who provides resources and support for the project, program or portfolio for enabling success.”. Defines project roles and reporting structure. Governance.

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Connecting Analytics to Strategy - Keeping Your Corporate Objective In Sight

Speaker: Tom Evans, Senior Principal Consultant and Trainer, 280 Group

Data analytics has transformed the way many product managers approach product enhancements, creating strong demand for product managers with skills and expertise in defining and analyzing product metrics to make more valuable product decisions.

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Using DACI Framework for Better Group Decisions

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DACI is a project management framework used to clearly define the roles of the various stakeholders on a project. These roles, defined by DACI, make it clear who has authority in certain areas and situations. This allows a project to progress smoothly whenever group decisions have to be made. It’s defined through them.

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Back to Basics: What is the Difference between Process Groups and Phases?

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After that experience, I no longer had a difficulty in understanding the difference between project management process groups and project phases. In my two decades of experience, I have noticed that many PMs find it difficult to understand the concept of process groups. Five Process Groups of Project Management. In figure 1.5