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How to Manage Fixed Date Projects

Rebel’s Guide to PM

LeRoy Ward, PMP , PgMP, and PMI Eric Jenett Project Management Excellence Award winner, when I asked him for his view. “For example, many telecom projects have fixed end dates. Backing in is when you start at the end of the project and work your way backwards calculating task estimates until you reach today. But now what?

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Project Cost Management – The Essential Things to Know and Do

Online PM Courses

Your ‘Project Cost Management Plan’ Establishing your costs – the processes of estimating and budgeting. Project Cost Management is a process that has two principle components: Estimating costs and creating a project budget from them. Here are some of the things to include: Budgeting and Estimating.

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The Relationship Between Culture and Performance

Leading Agile

When I first started thinking through this idea, I was actually really thinking about the idea of practices because back in 2010, a little bit earlier than that, Jim Kundiff, the Scrum Alliance, and those guys were really popularizing the CSM certification, PMI was doing the PMI ACP or a lot of us were part of that. It was pretty cool.