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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

For example, many project managers are accustomed to working within the PMI guidelines for best project management practices. Whereas product managers might rely on agile product development, lean manufacturing processes or lean software development methodologies. What Is a Project Manager? Develop a project plan.

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How To Make 2023 A Successful Year for Your Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

A well-documented plan? John Estrella John Estrella With the release of the Agile Practice Guide along with the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition , we can’t ignore PMI’s direction to incorporate adaptive life cycles such as agile , iterative or incremental life cycles into project and development life cycles. Proper briefs?

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Troubleshooting in Lean-Agile Development

MPUG

Many project managers utilize a Lean-Agile approach when there is high change or churn in project requirements, significant lack of clarity in scope, high complexity to their projects, and/or a larger number of risks associated with such. Two Lean-Agile Types. Iteration-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based Lean-Agile. Flow-based.

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Project Manager Job Description (with free copy+paste examples!)

ProjectManager.com

There are two major certifying bodies, PRINCE2 and the Project Management Institute (PMI). Here are the main project management certifications offered by the PMI: Project Management Professional (PMP): This certifies that you’re a capable project manager who is competent in waterfall and agile project management. Competencies.

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Project Management: Principles, Practices & Context

Velociteach

Lean manufacturing influenced the quality movement, Agile , and DevOps. PMI’s PMBOK® Guide The Project Management Institute (PMI) is a leading industry voice. PMI initially approached project management from a process-centric perspective. Lean organizations achieve these goals through empowerment and incremental change.

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Servant Leadership in PMO Management: A Path to Success

The IIL Blog

Ask yourself and your team: Are our processes documented? Are our documented processes known by the team? And finally, are our documented processes respected? We’ve taken many different and evolving approaches to driving lean into our processes. Jeff has been a member of the PMI Global Executive Council since 2014.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Agile Manifesto The fundamental document that outlines the values and principles of Agile project management. Business case An organization will develop a document to justify the investment in a project (i.e., Dependency Mapping Identifying and documenting the relationships and dependencies between project tasks or activities.