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•Project Management Intersects With Business Analysis
Business Analyst skills are important to have on the project team, and not a bad thing for a Project Manager to have! In either case, the business analysis function is one that needs to be managed with care and the wisdom of experience. This entails putting the business analysis function into perspective.
Consider the roles that business analysts typically play: requirements management, systems analysis, business analysis, requirements analysis, or consulting. One key concept within the...
•Projectization and Project Management Essentials for Non Project Managers
Professional Project Management is becoming more pervasive. Like electrification occurred during the era of proliferation of electricity, projectization is occurring throughout the workforce and organizations. Most of the emphasis I have seen is on professional project management. However, most people will not be professional project managers, but rather will be team members, support personnel, subject matter experts, department managers, C-level executives, and the like. This article...
•2 Keys to Reduce Project Risk in the Requirements Process
Gathering and managing requirements are important challenges in project management. Most projects succeed or fail based upon the quality of the project requirements. Projects can fail due to poor requirements at the beginning, or at any time throughout the lifecycle if the continuously evolving baseline of requirements is not managed effectively. Projects are like snowflakes; no single project is exactly the same as another. The Project Manager needs to assess and understand the uniqueness...
•Driving Project Success with Effective Project Integration Management
Project Management involves a great deal of discipline in making sure that all the i's are dotted and t's are crossed'. Project Integration Management is a knowledge area of the PMBOK that the project manager can leverage to drive the required results and effectively manage the process. This article explores the keys to driving the required results, and also how to effectively manage the project management process using the Project Integration Management framework.
Driving Results - the...
•Project Management Training Courses So Many Options
Choosing the right PM courses among the plethora of options, however, can be daunting! This article provides some guidance to help project managers more easily sift through the myriad of options and find the ideal set of PM training courses for their situation.
Here are some steps a project manager can take to identify the most beneficial PM training courses for their situation:
1. Match Training to Current Challenges
A great place to start is to first look at current challenges and...
•Project Management Courses So Many Options
Choosing the right project management courses, however, can become a bit daunting because there are just so many options! This article provides some guidance to help project managers take some first steps in running the gauntlet of options to find the ideal set of PMC for their situation, and get the most out of them.
Here are some steps a project manager can take to begin to identify the most beneficial PMC for themselves:
1. Look at Current Challenges
One way best ways to start is to...
•Project Management of Today s Society
Copyright (c) 2010 John Reiling
Everyone seemed to be coping up with the great change in our society, which is technology. Everything around us is connected to it - traffic lights, hidden cameras in the mall, buying items on the Net or what we called online shopping, even iPhones! And because everything is about technology, there should be somebody who needs to take care of everything that is going on in the Internet. Most people, especially the busy ones, they buy and sell items on the...
•Documenting Your Project Management Experience for the PMP Application
One of the challenges in becoming a PMP is successfully filling out the PMP application! The most time consuming part is documenting the experience required at professional project management, leading and directing project tasks. The minimum requirements are:
-3 years/36 months and 4,500 hours with a bachelor's degree -5 years/60 months and 7,500 hours with a bachelor's degree
The challenge is digging up all of the information on that past experience and getting it into the right format for...
•How to Projectize People and Adopt a Project Culture
Many organizations are projectizing and developing a strong and effective project management infrastructure. There are challenges along the way, and a number of approaches. However, regardless of the approach, changing the culture to be aligned to formal project management will involve aligning people, one by one, by empowering them with formalized project management knowledge. To accomplish this, organizations can do well to develop a granular approach to empowering their people through...
•Surpassing Customer Expectations Without Gold Plating
If one were to undergo project management studies, they will initially tell you that you must avoid gold-plating. Overall, it is not of the company's best interests.
Whenever you establish a company or organization, one of the first steps to take is establish a set of standards. This will serve as the barometer when meeting customer needs and services provided by the company. However, the idea of gold-plating causes several issues surrounding the whole idea of project management to arise....
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