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9 Types of Artifacts in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In project management, artifacts relate to documents: the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. You might not have agreements and contracts on your project because it obviously depends on if you are buying anything. However, nothing in project management it really mandatory.

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Project Artifacts and How to Use Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In project management, artifacts relate to documents, templates, outputs or a specific deliverable. Mostly, the term refers to the project documentation you produce that defines and supports the work you are doing. You create them when they are needed and refer to and update them as necessary. What is an artifact?

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What is ROM and how to calculate it (with example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Break the project work into chunks. Your PMO might have definitions for each of those to help you define and refine your estimates at the early stages of the project. If your PMO does not have standard categories like this, you can make them up. What’s a typical Rough Order of Magnitude for project estimating?

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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

MPUG

An organization’s project governance framework provides project managers and teams with structure, knowledge base, support, and tools to for managing their projects. Project governance is an oversight and controlling function. A general approach and methodology for defining project life cycle and phases.

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Rough Order of Magnitude (ROM) Estimate and How to Calculate It (with example)

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Break the project work into chunks. Your PMO might have definitions for each of those to help you define and refine your estimating at the early stages of the project. If your PMO does not have standard categories like this, you can make them up. What’s a typical Rough Order of Magnitude for project estimating?

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20 Things For Your Project Management Plan [With 3 Free Templates]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

How did this project come about? What are the project objectives? Reference the business case and any prior documentation. It’s always easier to reference other documents than try to reproduce them in here. Ideally you should list everything that is in the project scope in as much detail as you can.

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Engaging Stakeholders with Gamification [video]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

So we’ll look at how to use those principles to support your team’s drive engagement throughout the PMO and encourage stakeholders to take action. Finally, I’m assuming that you work in a project or programme environment within the context of a PMO. You can see the reference to the guide there.

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