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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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This will help an organization assess and improve its project management capabilities by ranking the organization based on five maturity levels: initial, managed, defined, quantitatively managed and optimizing. Project Scope Management Here you’re defining and outlining all the work of the project.

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What Is a Program Manager? (Job Description Included)

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This certification program by the project management institute (PMI) validates your knowledge and experience as a program manager. It requires you to demonstrate program management experience or a project management professional (PMP) certification. Program Management Professional (PgMP).

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Business Acumen for Project Managers [Free Checklist]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

It’s also something mentioned in the standards for professional project management bodies. Apparently, business acumen is something that project managers should have. In 2022, PMI updated the Talent Triangle to include business acumen. It really is a core skill for project professionals. What is business acumen?

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But in practice, to me that looks like a lot of project documentation, and not a lot of actual doing, so let’s talk about 12 simple ways that you can manage project quality , without it being loads of work or a drama to get right. The ISO 9001 definition is very similar to APM’s, as is the definition in the PMI PMBOK ®.

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The 10 Project Management Knowledge Areas (PMBOK)

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PMBOK stands for Project Management Body of Knowledge. It is a set of standard terminology and guidelines for project management published and updated by The Project Management Institute (PMI). What Are the Project Management Knowledge Areas? Project Cost Management.

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Resource Smoothing Steps, Templates and Tools

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There are a number of things a project manager can do, but the goal is always the same: meeting the deadline without resources spiking or falling. That means that the project cost can increase as opposed to the project taking a longer time as in resource-leveling.

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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

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To begin, let’s look at the five project management process groups defined in the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK), published by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the leading industry trade group. At this point, you document the project plan, as well as define the project deliverables and requirements.

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