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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.

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Top 10 Project Management Methodologies – An Overview

ProjectManager.com

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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125 Project Management Buzzwords

The IIL Blog

Dependency Mapping Identifying and documenting the relationships and dependencies between project tasks or activities. Earned Value Management (EVM) A systematic approach to project performance measurement assessing schedule and cost performance. Feasibility Study An analysis of a project’s viability. of a project.

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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). The course also includes a project management case study.

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Project Management Artifacts: Essential Tools to Enhance Project Management

Project Pulse Journal

These outputs may consist of documents, documentation standards and templates, plans, reports, and reporting guidelines created to support the management and execution of a project. Artifacts serve as references for current and future projects by documenting the progress, decisions, and outcomes of a project's life cycle.

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Agile project management- A tutorial

Binfire

The reason for this surge in popularity is quite understandable, the majority of projects benefit when managed using lean concepts promoted by Agile project management methodology. But the tide is turning and Agile project management is gaining wide acceptance as a valid process for most projects.

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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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