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

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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. Here’s a screen shot of the whiteboard for your reference! What Is a Project Manager? Let’s take a look at the most important project manager responsibilities.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

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The PMBOK provides definitions and guidelines for project planning, scheduling, executing and controlling. For example, the project management process groups describe the project life cycle while the 10 project management knowledge areas explain how to manage a project. Lean Methodology.

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How to Take Advantage of Adaptive Project Management

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As an experienced project manager, Kanban should be one of the go-to tools. Lean Project Management Lean project management is derived from lean manufacturing principles and focuses on maximizing value by eliminating waste. Lean may also combined with software development tools and techniques.

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How to Write a Business Case

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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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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

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The project objectives, the nature of the tasks involved, and the preferences of the project team influence the method choice. Artifacts Artifacts refer to tangible outputs or project deliverable produced throughout the project lifecycle. Here's to the success of your current and future projects!

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

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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.

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What is project scope? (Plus 7 steps to help you define project scope)

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Project scope is the project manager’s best friend. It’s what we lean on throughout the project life cycle. It keeps us on the straight and narrow all the way to project success. We might think that “oh, I don’t need a project scope, I’ve done thousands of projects like this!”.