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Project Management Process Groups: A Quick Guide

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To keep to your schedule and manage costs, you need to gather and process project data throughout the five PMBOK project management groups. What Are the 5 PMBOK Project Management Process Groups? Project management software helps project managers stay on top of each of these process groups.

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Measuring the Project Management Maturity of Your Organization

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When you’re a PMP, program manager or portfolio manager, you need to deliver all those multiple projects on time and within budget. This requires an organization with a well-developed project management process. It’s essential to keep projects successful for any organization to thrive.

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Risk Management Process Explained (+resources, templates)

PM Basics

Therefore, I spent lots of time and effort creating a practical risk management process. Risk management process is a structured approach to identifying, assessing, addressing, and controlling risks. It’s a combination of processes and tools a project manager applies to discover threats and opportunities that may impact a project.

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Top 10 Project Management Qualifications

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Project budgets are estimated by project managers and then approved by the project client or stakeholders. Risk Management A project risk is an unexpected event, which can be positive or negative. The project should be driven by business analysis that directs the benefits of delivering its product or service.

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12 Ways to Manage Project Quality Without Drama

Rebel’s Guide to PM

But all that really comes after knowing what quality looks like on your project. The APM BOK defines project quality as: “The fitness for purpose of the degree of conformance of the outputs of a process, or the process itself to requirements.” Good” then becomes your success criteria or quality measures.

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What Is a Program Manager? (Job Description Included)

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In project management, a program is a set of related projects that are executed simultaneously by organizations to make the most out of their resources and maximize their return on investment (ROI). A program manager oversees this process. They define the program controls, or the processes, procedures, reporting, etc.,

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Resource Smoothing Steps, Templates and Tools

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There are a number of things a project manager can do, but the goal is always the same: meeting the deadline without resources spiking or falling. That means that the project cost can increase as opposed to the project taking a longer time as in resource-leveling.