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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

So, picture this: you are transitioning from your current position into a project management career. The industry didn’t matter; it was about translating my work experience into specific project management industry-recognized terms and managing projects. What are the Essential Project Management Buzzwords?

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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

PMI has become and continues to be the leading professional association in project management. The goal of the Metrolina chapter is to advance the mission and objectives of the Project Management Institute. Facilitating Innovation in a Post COVID-19 World . Risk and PMI’s Risk Management Professional (RMP) Certification.

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Construction Delivery Methods: A Quick Guide for Projects

ProjectManager.com

That’s a long and complicated journey in construction project management, which is why knowing the best construction delivery method is so important. There are many different types, from design-bid-build, design-build and construction manager at risk to integrated project delivery, job order contracting and public-private partnerships.

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5 Strategies for Product Backlog refinement

Scrum.org

estimating the work in size and value. Refinement is simply the ongoing activity of having these conversations and thus an essential product management activity. This gives the Product Backlog a level of transparency that reduces the risk. Estimating Product Backlog items. eliminating dependencies within the work.

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How to Write a Business Case

ProjectManager.com

In fact, in some lean or agile organizations, over-reliance on documentation is seen as a clear impediment to innovation and collaboration. Stakeholders: Whether they’re clients, vendors, upper management, departmental leaders or other contributors to the project, meet with them. Don’t forget to include a risk management plan.

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Business Agility: What Is It & Why Is It Important?

ProjectManager.com

Yes, they do enjoy profits, but those come when markets are consistent, where managers can plan accurately for a future that is clearly laid out before them. There are trends and systems that can calculate and estimate the likelihood of what is to come, but the reality is there are too many variables to make any such equation infallible.

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Basis of Estimating Software Development

Herding Cats

The estimating of software development is both straightforward and complex. When it is suggested that estimating is hard, of no value, and unnecessary, always ask what principle is used to support that claim? Software Sizing and Estimating: Mk II FPA , Charles Symons, John Wiley & Sons, 1991. Don't hear one?