The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of project management and to give a brief overview of the methodology that underpins most formally run projects. Many organisations do not employ ...

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Following these nine steps may be the ultimate secret weapon to winning business and successfully delivering new easy-to-use software that meets and exceeds expectations. A report from the Standish ...

Earned Value Management (EVM) helps project managers to measure project performance. It is a systematic project management process used to find variances in projects based on the comparison of worked ...

PMI is the world's leading professional association for a growing community of millions of project professionals and change-makers worldwide. Location: United States Established: 1969 Certifications: ...

Activities classed under the term project are so diverse that it is sometimes difficult to appreciate commonalities among them. For example, social activities like the organisation of parties, picnics ...

The Rational Unified Process, Enterprise Unified Process, Agile Development Methodologies, Unified Modeling Language. They come in many names, complexities and sizes, but following one will help ...

What qualities are most important for a project leader to be effective? Over the past few years, the people at ESI International, world leaders in project management training, have looked in to what ...

A Gantt chart is a popular project management bar chart that tracks tasks across time. When first developed in 1917, the Gantt chart did not show the relationships between tasks. This has become ...

Project management in the modern sense began in the 1950s, although it has its roots further back in the latter years of the 19th century. The need for project management was driven by companies that ...

In this article we are going to look at what many project managers and project management professionals refer to as the "foundation" of the project, or at least the foundation of project planning. The ...

That's why setting SMART goals - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely - is the first step in making your goal a reality. Make your goal as specific as possible and express it in ...