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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

You might also here artifacts referred to as templates, documents, outputs or deliverables, but in all cases they relate to the work of managing the project, not the thing you are creating as the output of the project. Assumption log Risk register Backlog (see, agile project artifacts are relevant too) Stakeholder register.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Mostly, the term refers to the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. Work breakdown structure Product breakdown structure Organizational breakdown structure Risk breakdown structure Resource breakdown structure Cost breakdown structure. What is an artifact? You can grab the set I use here.

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What is the Management Reserve for Project Budgets?

Project Risk Coach

Unforeseen risks knock at your door. You look at your budget, but you don't have the funds to respond to these risks. Why Reserves are Needed During the course of a project, you and your project team identify risks which are referred to as known/unknown risks. These risks have not been identified.

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Value Innovation Strategy For Strategic Project Managers

The Strategic Project Manager

” It refers to the simultaneous pursuit of differentiation and low cost to create a leap in value for both customers and the company itself, thereby opening up new, uncontested market space. Risk Management – Project managers can leverage value innovation principles to inform risk management strategies.

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Project Management, Performance Measures, and Statistical Decision Making

Herding Cats

I work in the Software Intensive System of Systems domains in Aerospace, Defense, Enterprise IT (both commercial and government) applying Agile, Earned Value Management, Productive Statistical Estimating (both parametric and Monte Carlo), Risk Management, and Root Cause Analysis with a variety of capabilities. References below. .

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Different Project Management Terms Beginners Should Know

ProProfs Project Management

It refers to a set of methodologies utilized to meet the ever-changing client requirements. An assumption in project management refers to assuming about possible factors or situations that may occur in the project planning process that it may actually happen. It can also refer to a comprehensive set of expenses or revenues.

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Closing A Project with MS Project

MPUG

For example, it may be that some planned meetings didn’t materialize, planned tasks were never started, or your team didn’t execute a set of risk mitigation tasks because the risk(s) didn’t occur. References. [1] It’s possible that during a project life cycle, some planned activities are never executed.

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