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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact. That includes: Comms management plan Release plan Scope management plan Iteration plan Test plan Quality plan Logistics plan. We create baselines throughout the project.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, an estimate is the obvious output of the estimating process, so estimates aren’t mentioned again as a separate project artifact. That includes: Comms management plan Release plan Requirements management plan Scope management plan Iteration plan Test plan Quality plan Logistics plan.

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Women in Project Management: Rachel Mata

Rebel’s Guide to PM

All my previous job experiences had been surrounded by planning, coordinating logistics, and, more than that, getting things done. For 6 months, I planned and coordinated the induction, training, and performance measurement of all my team and new hires. Rachel Mata.

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What is an Estimate? What is Estimating?

Herding Cats

I work in a domain where estimates are made every single week. Estimate to Complete (ETC), Estimate at Completion (EAC), Estimated Completion Date (ECD) are the life blood of our software intensive system of systems programs. This, of course, is nonsense, since estimates are about the past, present, and future.

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Why Johnny Can't Do The Math

Herding Cats

In a previous post, Why Johnny Can't Estimate , mentioned some resources for estimating, the principles of business and technical management that demand estimates be made to make decisions, and background on the sources of uncertainty, that create risk, that require estimating to increase the probability of project success.

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Managing in Presence of Uncertainty

Herding Cats

This is an immutable principle that impacts planning, execution, performance measures, decision making, risk, budgeting, and overall business and technical management of the project and the business funding the project no matter the domain, context, technology or any methods. All project work operates in the presence of uncertainty.

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