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Project management: Tips, tools, best practices

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What is project management? Project management is a business discipline that involves applying specific processes, knowledge, skills, techniques, and tools to successfully deliver outcomes that meet project goals. Project management steps Project management is broken down into five phases or life cycle.

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20 traits of highly effective project managers

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To thrive, project managers need to have and hone a complex combination of technical, business, and interpersonal skills. Effective project managers must know how to define the scope of a project , identify necessary resources, and schedule those resources — all part of the technical aspect of the job.

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What is a project management office (PMO)? The key to standardizing project success

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Project management office (PMO) definition A project management office (PMO) is a group, or functional unit, that sets, maintains, and enforces the practices, policies, and standards for structuring and executing projects within an organization.

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Telstra – Building A Better Operations Management Platform

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Two such heroes are Beba Brunt, executive for field services, and Aidan Walsh, principal for field onboard, transformation, execution and improvement at Telstra Group Limited, Australia’s largest telecommunications company. I also like highlighting the heroes who make it happen, hoping it will inspire others.

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Scrum master certification: Top 13 certs for agile pros

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The certification is also well-suited for software engineers, business analysts, and project managers. It spans many agile approaches, including Scrum, Lean, Kanban, extreme programming (XP), and test-driven development (TDD). Renewal : The DASM certification must be renewed every year.

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What is SAFe? A framework for scaling business agility

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SAFe is particularly well-suited to complex projects that involve multiple large teams at the project, program, and portfolio levels. It enables larger organizations to manage projects with a higher degree of agility, offering a way for stakeholders across multiple groups to get feedback faster.

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Women IT leaders take center stage

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Early in her career as a program management specialist at AT&T, Balaban became an active member with the Project Management Institute’s New Jersey chapter, which put her front and center at plenty of events. I found a project I was told was impossible to do, gathered a team together, got some funding, and did it.