This is Chapter 3 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. Let’s dig right in! Project Management Overview Simply put, project management is the process and activity of planning, organizing, motivating, and controlling resources, procedures and protocols to achieve specific goals and objectives. In other words, it is the science of organizing…
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Project Management as a Career
Chapter 2 of a much more comprehensive post Project Management Guide: Starting Out. If you want a project management career or you are trying to find some more information about it, read on. Project management requires certain skills, and it could be a great career path for you if you want to: Want the choice to…
Why Project Management?
Why project management? This might very well be the most important question of all, when you are at the start of your career. Lets then try to answer it together. Also before we start I have to remind you that more information is available here Project Management Guide: Starting Out. Why project management? – the…
Project Management Guide: Starting Out
What made me do this you might ask? Well here is the main idea behind this project management guide: There are projected to be 15 million new project management jobs within the decade. (Source: Project Management Institute) Over the last decade project management has established itself as being one of the core professions inside an…
90 Questions You Should Ask When Brainstorming Project Ideas
All of us have started a project at some point in our life and struggled with it in some way. No matter what kind of project it was, questions had to asked and answered, followed by execution. Once I asked all my questions and made the decision to go ahead with the project, I always…
Scrum Project Management Intro
Arguably the most structured framework of the Agile methods, Scrum was first introduced in the 1986 as a way for “teams to work as a unit to reach a common goal,” according to its inventors Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka. Scrum takes parts of Traditional and Agile project management ideas and combines them for a…
PRINCE2 Process Model, Graphics and PDF
The British government has honed their project management methods for years, cumulating with PRINCE2 in 1989. An acronym for Projects In Controlled Environments version 2, PRINCE2 throws sprints out the window, and instead approaches a project as one big sprint and stresses quality of delivery—like a traditional project management version of Six Sigma. The PRINCE2 process…
Quick Overview Of Agile Project Management
Every project isn’t structured in a way that’d work well with the Traditional Project Management method. Think back to our meal example: while cooking one dish might work perfectly in a traditional, one step at a time model, serving a four-course meal would be impossible if you were waiting for each part of the meal…
Project Management: Guide to Agile, Scrum, Kanban and Waterfall
Humanity has a great track record when it comes to serious project management. From the Great Pyramids to the moon landing, our greatest endeavors required people working together on common goals. And that means intricate project management. PMI estimates there will be more than 15 million new project manager positions added to the global job…
Leadership and How It Ruins Our Every Day
Leadership…well, this is a sour subject for many of us. I think that most of us have encountered, at some point in their careers, people in leadership roles who were incompetent and misguided about their real abilities. This impacts every aspect of our lives, be it personal or career related and we should really talk…