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State of Agile Project Management Report
This recently published State of Agile report will be covering some of these benefits and challenges in using the Agile…
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Top 6 Cost Estimation Methods in Project Management
In project management cost estimation is a very important process in which we predict the financial resources required to execute…
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Top 4 Project Management Tools and Software in 2024
Project management software tools are used to help the project management teams to plan and organize the projects effectively. They…
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LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report 2024: A Summary
The research conducted by LinkedIn shows that the top 5 learning and development focus areas for 2024 are aligning learning…
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Role of Design Thinking in Project Management
While technical skills are often important for project managers, very few people think about creativity as an essential skill for…
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PMI Report 2023: Shaping The Future Of Project Management with AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been influencing the execution of projects and the work of the project manager. With the changing…
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Data Driven Project Management
Every project, whether successful or not, teaches project managers and the entire project team valuable lessons for making the right…
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The Growing Importance of Soft Skills in Project Management
While technical know-how might build the project's foundation, soft skills act as the binding force which keeps everything together and…
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Enhance Security for PMP® Exam. How will it impact me?
Effective 25th September, 2023, PMI has enhanced the data forensics and security policies for the Project Management Professional Exam (The…
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How to develop self-organizing teams?
There are no readymade solutions. Developing a self-organizing team is a process that involves careful planning, leadership, and a focus…
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Product Analysis to Define Project Scope
How does product analysis help in defining scope clearly and deliver as per customer’s need. Introduction: Product Analysis in project…
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Validate Scope vs Quality Control
Understanding the Differences between scope validation & quality control and Importance in Project Management Introduction: Continuing with my previous post…
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Validate Scope vs Control Scope
Key Differences and Importance of Validate Scope vs Control Scope in Project Management. Introduction In project management, scope management plays…
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How to Prepare & Pass PMP Exam – My Experience
Time Management during PMP Exam: We get 230 min for 180 questions in overall. So approx. 75 min for each…
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Adjusting Work Timings for Resources in MS Project
Some times our team members go on leaves or they work part time on our project. It is important for…
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Assign Resources to Tasks in MS Project
Questions, this post answers: Assigning Resources to Activities in MS Project In previous post we discussed about adding resources to…
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Understand Resources Management in MS Project
Questions, this post answers: Resource Types in Projects If we look at the types of resources we deal in our…
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Manual Scheduling and Auto Scheduling in MS Project
Manually scheduled mode indeed gives more flexibility and full control in the hand of the users. However it also does…
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Managing Dependencies in MS Project
Questions, this post answers: What are dependencies in MS Project? How many types of dependencies are there in MS Project?…
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Take PMP® Online Exam from your home
The New PMP® Online Exam Since PMI® has made Pearson VUE its partner to administer its various exams, PMI has…
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How to pass PMP Exam in 30 days?
Your path to get PMP Certification quickly without disturbing your day to day life. Tips to pass PMP Exam in…
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How can I be benefited from PMP Exam Study?
The true benefits of PMP Exam studies will come when you concentrate understanding project management and implement it in your…
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Entering Task (Activity) Estimates in MS Project
Questions, this post answers: What are essential element of MS Project to enter estimates for any task? Whether I enter…
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How will PMP Certification help me in my work?
Your career will grow when you implement project management knowledge in your work. The proof of the pudding is in…
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I do have required experience but not in initiation process groups, am I eligible for PMP Exam?
It is very difficult for a project manager (or any one) having over 3 years of project management experience and…
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Common Cause vs. Special Cause Variations in Control Chart
Project Quality Management – Control Chart – Common Cause vs. Special Cause Variations Maintaining health of a process for continuously delivering…
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PMP Exam is changing in July, 2021 – Part 3 – Domains & Tasks in The PMP Exam Content Outline
What are the contents of PMP Exam Content Outline and how do they drive PMP Exam and changes in it?…
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PMP Exam is changing in January, 2021 – Part 2 – The PMP Exam Content Outline
What is New PMP Exam Content Outline and how is it causing change in PMP Exam from 1st January, 2021? In…
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PMP Exam is changing in January, 2021
What do I need to do? Important Edit: Due to business impact of Coronavirus issue, PMI is postponed the changes…
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PMP Exam Testing Centres have come closer to you!
As PMI® has moved its exam centres for all exams from Prometric to Pearson VUE effective from 1st July, 2019, more…
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Creating a Work Breakdown Structure in MS Project
Questions, this post answers: What are essential element of MS Project to create WBS? What are summary tasks? What are…
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How to create a Work Breakdown Structure?
Questions, this post answers: What is Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)? Why to create a WBS? How to create WBS? What…
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PMP® Paper Based Exam in Pune in 2019
Schedule of Paper Based Test (PBT) for PMP® Certification Exam in 2019 in Pune, India Continuing to facilitate PMP® Certification…
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Product Scope Vs Project Scope – A Comparative Study
Product Scope Vs Project Scope Like some other terms, difference between Product Scope and Project Scope often create confusion among…
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New Year Resolutions for Project Managers
Five things to win projects and people in New Year! As we usher into New Year, it is a good…
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Setup a project calendar in Microsoft Project 2016
The primary objective of Microsoft Project is to track the time throughout project life cycle. Therefore it is of primary…
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Microsoft Project 2016 – Create New Project
Microsoft Project provide various options to create a new project easily and quickly. You can start a project completely from…
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Microsoft Project 2016 – Before you plan your first project
Microsoft Project has some standard settings however these standard settings may not match with your organization’s working. My currency in…
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Microsoft Project 2016 – Views That You Can Use
Microsoft Project collects, derives and maintains a lot of data which is necessary for effective scheduling, tracking and reporting projects.…
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Five simple reasons for project failure in manufacturing industry
Manufacturing and engineering industry is an operation driven industry. It has set several standards in optimizing operations that are examples…
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Microsoft Project 2016 – Basic User Interface
Microsoft Project Professional 2016 (Also applicable to Microsoft Project 2016 Standard) has a very intuitive user interface. It is very…
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What is Risk Attitude?
Risk Attitude Risk Attitude is at high level and shows the natural inclination or basic nature of stakeholders or organizations…
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Paper Based Test (PBT) for PMP® Certification Exam in Pune in 2018
Schedule of Paper Based Test (PBT) for PMP® Certification Exam in 2018 in Pune, India Again a good news for PMP®…
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Tips and Tricks to pass PMP® Exam
PMP® Exam is not a simple exam to crack. It requires focus, serious studies, understanding of project management concepts, persistence…
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Using EVM with MS Project 2016
Using EVM Capability of Microsoft Project 2016 Earned Value Management (EVM) is one of the well-defined project tracking methods. PMI®…
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How do you do your software estimation?
Software estimation is a complex subject. Even today it is solely responsible for maximum numbers of project failures. Software estimation…
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The PMP® Exam is Changing on 26th March 2018
The PMP® exam is changing from PMBOK® Guide 5th Edition to PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition on 26th March 2018 PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition was…
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PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition – FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about PMBOK® Guide 6th Edition Recently PMI released PMBOK® 6th Edition. It is obvious that some questions…
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Mapping MS Project 2016 to project management processes
Microsoft Project is the tool which is used throughout the project life cycle from initiation to closure. Let’s see how…
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Project Management Competencies
Project Management Competencies Development Framework of PMI® defines three types of competencies for project managers. These competencies are represented by…
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Who is Project Manager?
Who is project manager? What is his role? What are his primary responsibilities? These are few questions we must answer before…
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Balancing the triple constraints triangle
For balancing triple constraints triangle, let’s look back to the Project Manager Knowledge Areas section above where we discussed various…
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What are Program and Portfolio Management?
Program and Portfolio Management Program and portfolio both are group of projects however their objective of grouping is different. Program and…
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Project Management Knowledge Areas
Project Management Knowledge Areas as explained in PMBOK® Guide (A standard by PMI®) A project manager has to manage multiple…
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Project Management Process Groups
Initiating Process Group Processes that are used to initiate a project are grouped in Initiation Group. In initiation, we conceptualize…
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What is Project Management?
As per PMBOK, Project Management is the application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities to meet the…
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What is a Project?
For a simple answer to this question “What is a project?” just look into PMBOK – A standard of Project Management…
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Paper Based Test (PBT) for PMP Exam in Pune in 2017
Schedule of Paper Based Test (PBT) for PMP Exam in 2017 for Pune, India It is a good news for…
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The Microsoft Project 2016 Product Suite
Project Management is incomplete without a scheduler. Microsoft Project is one of the most popular scheduler used in the industry. MS…
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Dealing with Integrated Change Control – Part 4
How to handle situations at ground and questions in PMP® Exam related to integrated change control process. Part – 4 – How…
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Dealing with Integrated Change Control – Part 3
How to handle situations at ground and questions in PMP® Exam related to integrated change control process. Part – 3…
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Dealing with Integrated Change Control – Part 2
How to handle situations at ground and questions in PMP® Exam related to integrated change control process. Part – 2 The…
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Dealing with Integrated Change Control
How to handle situations at ground and questions in PMP® Exam related to integrated change control process. Project Change Management…
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Individual project risk Vs Overall project risk
Understanding difference between Individual project risk and overall project risk is important for project management professionals. It is especially important for people going…
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Risk Appetite Vs Risk Tolerance
Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance are two terms often confuse the professionals especially PMP® Aspirants who are preparing for PMP® Exam as…
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What’s new in Microsoft Project 2016 – Part 2
This is in continuation to my previous post “What’s new in Microsoft Project 2016 – Part 1” in which I…
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What’s new in Microsoft Project 2016 – Part 1
I will cover following under “What’s new in Microsoft Project 2016” What’s new in Microsoft Project 2016 Professional? – In…
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How to update a baseline in MS Project
You may need to update a baseline in MS Project, you created before start tracking your project. First of all…
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How to prepare for PMP® Exam?
This question is on the mind of every PMP® aspirant. A good number of people keep thinking on this question…
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Paper Based Test for PMP Exam (PBT) in Pune , Vishakapatnam & Vadodara
PMI India has announced Paper Based Test for PMP Exam (PBT) in Pune, Vishakapatnam & Vadodara on 21st Nov, 2015…
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Paper Based Test for PMP Exam (PBT) in Pune in Sep & Oct, 2015
Once again PMI India has announced Paper Based Test for PMP Exam (PBT) in Pune .The schedule is as below…
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PMI Project Management National Conference 2015, India is in Bangalore
The next Project Management National Conference of Project Management Institute (PMI), India is scheduled in Bangalore (Bengaluru) from 10 September…
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PMP exam is changing in 2016 – How will it impact me?
The News Recently Project Management Institute (PMI) has announced that PMP Exam is changing in 2015. The reason for this…
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Rules for earning PDUs are changing from Dec-2015
PMI has announced change in Continue Certification Requirements (CCR) Program to renew PMP Certification effective from December 2015. Earning PDUs…
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Paper Based Test for PMP Exam (PBT) in Pune, Cochin & Jaipur
PMI India has announces Paper Based Test for PMP Exam (PBT) in Pune, Cochin and Jaipur. The schedule is as…
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Should I take Paper Based Test (PBT) for PMP Certification?
As such this is not an option for all. PMI organizes Paper Based Test (PBT) only for the candidates who…
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MS Project Training at Heavy Water Plant, Talchar, Odisha
After couple of successful training at Mumbai for DAE, I got a request to conduct a MS Project Training at…
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I resolve, every day in 2014, I will give…
I resolve, every day in 2014, I will give my team members a life of self-respect, inclusiveness, rewarding, growth and…
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Don’t violate the delegation
PM: I am a business analyst and also playing a role of project manager for some time now. The…
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Plan your resolution for New Year 2013
Welcome my friend, I wish you a very happy new year. Adding value to a manager’s life is my sole…
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