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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Benchmarking Identifying a project performance indicator or practice, then assessing it against industry standards or best practices. Bottom-up Estimating A project estimation technique that leverages tactical-level team members/subject matter experts (SMEs) to break down tasks into smaller components to create a more accurate estimate.

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How to Actually Develop a Project Management Plan

Project Risk Coach

Work Breakdown Structure – create a hierarchical decomposition or outline of the scope of work to achieve the project objectives and to create the deliverables. Cost Baseline – approved version of the project budget. Subsidiary Project Plans The Project Management Institute (PMI) highlights ten Knowledge Areas.

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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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Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

MPUG

As we will see, agile methods are, to a degree, a response to the kind of risks that software development projects face. So, we might say that agile project management has a lot of risk management baked into the framework. The post Do We Need Risk Management in Agile Projects?

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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The traditional project management methods like Waterfall project management don’t fit the requirements of many projects, especially those projects which involve research or new discovery. The above three assumptions are the foundation and bedrock how the traditional project management methodology was planned.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The Agile project management methodology has been used in the software development and IT industry for the past sixteen years, but recently it has gained wide acceptance by many number of industries and organizations. But the tide is turning and Agile is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for many projects.

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