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

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Of course, these roles can also vary greatly depending on the types of products or projects being executed in the organization. For example, manufacturing product managers are responsible for tangible products, while software development product managers will have different teams and agile workflows to assist in the software product launch.

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Project Management Basics: Definitions, Methods and Tools

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Project management is a discipline that consists in using project management methodologies, tools and techniques to manage the project life cycle, which is a set of stages that are common to every project. Project Life Cycle The project life cycle describes the five phases all projects go through.

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How to Cash In on Project Opportunities

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8 Evaluating Opportunities 9 Responding to Opportunities 10 Monitoring Opportunities. To enhance an opportunity means: a) The opportunity is escalated to the project sponsor. New opportunities may surface at any point in the project life cycle. Self Assessment Quiz. b) The probability and/or impact is increased.

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Software Development Life Cycle and Project Management

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Software Development Life Cycle is on every job description for a Project Manager. Everyone wants you to know how to develop software applications. But there is a real problem here: With so many different frameworks and project management approaches, life cycles are so confusing.

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Back to Basics: What is the Difference between Process Groups and Phases?

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I got introduced to formal project management processes through Rational Unified Process (RUP) in the year 2000. RUP was developed by Rational Corporation which was later acquired by IBM. I had to learn about RUP because our company had adopted it to implement and manage projects. A project can have one or more phases.

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How to Create a Project Execution Plan (PEP) – Free Template Included

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What Is a Project Execution Plan (PEP)? A project execution plan is a document used to define how you will execute a project. That should be obvious from the name, but it also addresses the project scheduling, monitoring and controlling needed to bring the project deliverables. Quality Standards.

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How to Actually Develop a Project Management Plan

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A project baseline is a snapshot against which all future measurements will be compared. For example, a project manager can compare actual completion dates of activities to an approved schedule baseline. Without a baseline, how will you monitor and control your projects? What is a project management plan?