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Product Manager vs Project Manager – What’s the Difference?

ProjectManager.com

Product Manager vs Project Manager. While both are leadership roles and the titles are similar, there’s a difference between a product manager and a project manager as Jennifer Bridges, PMP, explains. Of course, these roles can also vary greatly depending on the types of products or projects being executed in the organization.

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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Key Performance Indicator (KPI) Key Performance Indicators are quantifiable metrics used to assess employee, project, and organizational performance. Lean A project management philosophy that aims to maximize value while minimizing waste. Lean Six Sigma Combining Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate defects and waste.

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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. Projects fail without having a solid business case to rest on. Create a Schedule: Make a timeline for the project by estimating how long it will take to get each task completed.

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Free project management certifications

Moira Alexander

Financial Decision Rules for Project Evaluation - a self-paced course on how to use decision criteria and rules to evaluate projects based on their impact on business, including payback, Net Present Value (NPV), and Internal Rate of Return (IRR). Related story: 6 ways to be a better project manager ].

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Professional Development Day 2022 – IGNITE!

International Institute for Learning

Where is your leadership strategy now? Do you project an image of being part of the problem or part of the solution? Discover three types of flexibility in leadership and work/life balance needed to make that happen in the aftermath of COVID-19. Leadership Begins with You – How to A.M.P. Presenters: Keynote.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

To achieve project success, increase efficiency, and streamline procedures, models, methods, and artifacts are crucial. Possessing a toolkit that makes complex project management easier to handle and raises the success rate of the project and its leadership is undoubtedly advantageous.

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Mastering the project life cycle: Your complete guide (+ examples)

Resource Guru

The project life cycle , just like a good story, has a beginning, a middle, and (hopefully) a happy end. The beginning involves the ever-so-important planning; then comes the middle, where teams complete various tasks to move the project closer to completion; and finally, an end to review what went well and what didn’t.