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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. engineering, IT, human resources, etc.), of a project.

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What is Project Management

MPUG

What is a Project The Project Management Institutes (PMI) PMBOK defines a project is “a temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product, service or result.” From start to finish, a project usually goes through 5 phases, called the Project Life Cycle.

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Project Resource Management: The Ultimate Guide on How to Master It

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Efficient project resource management also ensures maximum billable resource utilization for profitability. Here is how: Reduce project costs – Complete visibility across the enterprise helps leverage global resources from low-cost locations. Challenges of Resource Management in Projects. Essential read.

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Overview of the PMBOK® Guide Seventh Edition – Lesson 3 Transcription

MPUG

Today’s PMI activity code, I’ll have up on the screen here in a minute. As such, he oversees the production and maintenance of courses on project management, systems engineering, software development, business process improvement, and cyber security. I mentioned the five star because I saw this event is up on PMI.

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Bottleneck: In project management terms, a bottleneck is any constraint that restricts the movement of a process. With this approach, the project's cost and/or duration are calculated by adding the cost/duration of all its constituent activities. A CAPM is often a basic requirement for project management roles.

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Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Information about key project cost, (technical) performance, and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Taxonomy-Based Risk Identification,” Marvin Carr, Suresh Konda, Ira Monarch, Carlo Ulrich, and Clay Walker, Technical Report, CMU/SEI-93-TR-6, Software Engineering Institute, June 1993.

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A Compendium of Risk Management Resources

Herding Cats

Let's start with a critical understanding of the purpose of managing risk on software development projects. Information about key project cost, (technical) performance and schedule attributes is often uncertain or unknown until late in the program. Management of Novel Projects Under Conditions of High Uncertainty,” A.