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A practical guide to quality management, assurance & control

Rebel’s Guide to PM

I’ll also link the practice back to the PMBOK® Guide and Managing Successful Projects, the latest PRINCE2 manual. The activities include: Identifying the deliverables (which PRINCE2 calls products) and documenting expectations around customer satisfaction about what quality standards they will adhere to.

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Free and Low Cost Project Management Resources

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Personally, I’d like to think that your PMO will purchase the templates that you need to use, or that your manager will let you buy templates on their corporate credit card. Over the years I have reviewed, used and tested dozens of training courses and study materials, so you don’t have to take any chances.

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Project management degrees: Do you need one and what you can do with it

Rebel’s Guide to PM

She wrote: I have been advised that you have to do a degree in a particular subject e.g. engineering, do project management training e.g. PMI®, PRINCE2® etc and work your way up in order to become a project manager. That’s due to: an increase in the number of jobs requiring project management-oriented skills (i.e. Is this true?

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10 Places to Get Free Project Management Templates

Rebel’s Guide to PM

ProjectManager.com is a software tool, but they have a massive set of resources that work without their software. The Infrastructure & Projects Authority (IPA) arranges and manages project assurance reviews for the UK governments’ complex and high risk projects. PRINCE2 Templates from Axelos. ProjectManager.com.

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How to handover a project on closure

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Use the project handover templates from your PMO or make your own. Scope can include system descriptions, design documents, process maps and other documentation as well as the software or systems themselves. Hypercare is particularly relevant if one of your deliverables is software.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Have as many layers as fits within your PMO methodology. That’s the minimum (and the approach advocated by PRINCE2). If you are expecting the project oversight committee to make a decision at the meeting, make sure that they have information in advance of your meeting so that they can review the different options. Key decisions.

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Changing the Face of PM Training

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Go for something like PMP® or PRINCE2 and the choice is even greater. Craig has set up a review website for project management training and there’s a philanthropic initiative on the side as incentive to get people to write reviews. This is absolutely the correct way to approach customer reviews.

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