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Application areas
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Application areas These are the areas of business, industry, and trade about which the project manager may need special knowledge. Common application areas include legal issues, technical issues, engineering information, and manufacturing information.
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Deliverable
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Deliverable The outcome of a project or project phase; a deliverable of a project can be a product or service.
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Iron triangle
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The tripple constraints of project management: time / cost / scope
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Management by projects
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Management by Projects This approach characterizes organizations that manage their operations as projects. These project-centric entities could manage any level of their work as a project. Such organizations apply general business skills to each project to determine their value, efficiency, and, ultimately, their return on investment.
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Operations
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The day to day work that goes on in the organization.
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PMBOK guide
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PMBOK Guide Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), which includes all knowledge and practices within the endeavor of project management.
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PMP
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Project management professional
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Programs
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Programs A collection of related projects working in alignment towards a common cause.
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Progressive elaboration
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Progressive elaboration The process of providing or discovering greater levels of detail as the project moves toward completion.
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Project
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Project A temporary endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service.
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Project communications management
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The knowledge are that focuses on how communication happends, outlines stakeholder management.
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Project cost management
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The knowledge area that is concerned in planning, estimating, budgeting, and control of cost.
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Project human resource management
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The knowledge area that focuses on organizational planning, staff acquisition, and team development.
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Project integration management
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Project integration management The day-to-day actions of the project manager to ensure that all parts of the project work together. Composed of project plan development, project plan execution, and integrated change control.
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Project management
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Project management is the suppervision and control of work required to complete the project vision.
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Project manager
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Project manager The individual accountable for all aspects of a project.
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Project office
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A project management office organizes and managjes control over all projects whithin an organization.
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Project portfolio management
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Project portfolio management A management process to select the projects that should be invested in. Specifically, it is the selection process based on the need, profitability, and affordability of the proposed projects.
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Project procurement management
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The knowledge area that focuses on project procurement. This encompasses selecting vendors and contract negotiations.
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Project quality Management
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The knowledge area focused on quality planning assurance and control.
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Project risk management
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The knowledge area focused on risk planning, analysis, mentoring, and control.
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Project scope management
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Project scope management Project scope management, according to the PMBOK, is “the processes to ensure that the project includes all of the work required, and only the work required, to complete the project successfully.”
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Project time management
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The knowledge area that focuses on defining the activites, plot out their sequence, and calculate how long the project duration will actually take.
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Subprojects
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Subproject A subproject exists under a parent project but follows its own schedule to completion. Subprojects may be outsourced, assigned to other project managers, or managed by the parent project manager but with a different project team.
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Triple constraints of project management
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Time / cost / scope
Quality is affected by the ballance of these three components. Also known as the iron triangle. |
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Work breakdown structure
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Work breakdown structure (WBS) The WBS is a deliverable-orientated collection of project components. Work that isn’t in the WBS isn’t in the project. The point of the WBS is to organize and define the project scope.
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