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What is the Project Life Cycle and How to Use It Better?

Workamajig

The project life cycle describes the stages a project goes through as it progresses from start to finish. A well-defined life cycle brings order and structure to the project. This article will demystify the project management life cycle and help you run better projects.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

Scrum works within an agile project management framework, though there have been attempts to scale Scrum to fit larger organizations. The term scrum was introduced in a “Harvard Business Review” article from 1986 by Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM). Kanban Methodology.

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Project Integration Management – A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

As each department works on a project, each one likely uses a methodology that they’re most comfortable with to provide them with the results they want. This can make project collaboration between departments difficult, due to differences in process and methodology. Direct and Manage Project Work. Project Close.

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Review Engaging stakeholders on projects

Henny Portman

You can use a stakeholder saliency model to understand who your definitive, dangerous, dominant and dependent stakeholders are, based on legitimacy, power and urgency measures for each of your stakeholders. Next you must get clarity on stakeholder involvement. You can talk to them directly or ask colleagues about other stakeholders.

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The Growth in Importance of Project Value

The IIL Blog

On the other hand, the term “project value” has had multiple interpretations based upon the type of project, when in the project life cycle the term is used, and who is using the term. There is a valid argument that VE is the contractor’s definition of value and VA is the customer’s or user’s definition of value.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

Resource Guru

Project scope is the project manager’s best friend. It’s what we lean on throughout the project life cycle. It keeps us on the straight and narrow all the way to project success. We might think that “oh, I don’t need a project scope, I’ve done thousands of projects like this!”.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

hours, personnel needed, and/or tasks) to ensure that a project can be completed on time and within budget. Change Control A formal process of documenting, reviewing, approving, and managing a change to a project’s scope, schedule, budget, or quality parameters. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability.