A2Z Project Management Glossary This glossary also includes management terms which are not directly part of project management.
A2Z Project Management Glossary
Agile Project Management for Agile Professionals
Topics of PMI-ACP Workshop Being in Industry for around 25 years and played all kind of roles from programmer, analyst, leader, manager, delivery head, trainer, coach and consultant I have observed relationship between Project Delivery team and HR team…
Project Professional 2016 Reporting
Power BI Reporting for Project Online
Topics of PMI-ACP Workshop
Topics of PMI-ACP Workshop PMI-ACP exam expects from a candidate who is appearing for the exam that he must understand the following topics. It is an exhaustive check of the knowledge, skills, and attitude. This is the reason I love and…
Structure of Business Dialogues
What is the speaking? How to be an efficient and effective speaker? Everybody who can open his mouth, has tongue and healthy vocal cord can speak. But, is everybody able to communicate effectively and achieve the objective of speaking? In this world…
What is Balance Score Card?
What is difference the between Dimension and Measures? In business intelligence (BI) there are two terms, Dimension and Measures. Dimension is something which can be used for filtering, grouping purpose like department name, employee name, location, severity, priority etc. Measure…
Nontechnical skills every project manager needs
Nontechnical skills every project manager needs To succeed in any profession you need to strike a balance between the art and science of that profession. Science is about process, logic, practices etc. But art is about knowing what else is…
Challenging Your Team
Challenging Your Team Bacground Karthik is working with current company since last 12 years. By virtue of his hard work and initiative the company has done good progress in last few years. In reward of this Karthik was also progressing in his…
Introduction to PMBOK
Introduction to Project Management Body of Knowledge There is a project “Go to Chennai and meet a family friend in city and come back to Delhi by evening flight”. This idea you are discussing with your spouse one month before…
When to Kill a Project?
When to Kill a Project? Any project is a temporary endeavour which must end on one day. A project is an investment on a business objective or on some change initiative which is valuable from sponsor’s perspective. Project’s output need…
IT Project Management Best Practices
Project Management Best Practices for IT Project Managers Involve testing team since day one of requirement gathering. Never proceed on plan until it is reviewed and approved by related stakeholders System to categories off-specification, change requests, defects Change request must…
PMI Certification Table
All PMI Certifications at a glance Download This Table PMI Certification Name Experience 1 Experience 2 PMI Exam Fees Exam Renewal within 3 Years PMI Link PMP >>Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent) >>7,500 hours…
Software Testing – Confusing Terms
Software Testing – Confusing Terms Software Testing – Confusing Terms I think error, defects, issue, problem, bug and incident are heavily misused terms in software industry. As per my understanding it should be as following. Error = Gap between developer’s…
Customer Vendor Relationship
Customer Vendor Superiority Settled As a project manager, we are customer and vendor both. And we hear it from our seniors, elders, and society that customer is a god. So, this Customer Vendor Superiority question comes in our mind. In…
PMI-ACP Vs. Scrum Master Certification
PMI-ACP Vs. Scrum Master Certification Knowledge of agile methods, collaboration skills and flexibility to adapt the complexity are the high demand skills for managing projects. Now, you must be wondering that which certification will help you in developing these skills.…
Why Agile is popular in project management?
Why Agile is popular in project management? Why Agile is popular in project management? We know that Agile practices are not new but the need of these practices are more in 21st century are critical. That is why based on…
Skills, Responsibilities of Project Manager
Skills, Responsibilities of Project Manager Who are Project Managers? The project manager is a person accountable for accomplishing the project objectives. The project objectives are defined by project stakeholders and they are negotiated and agreed with project manager. Project objectives…
What are the success criterion of a Project
What are the success criterion of a Project Before we define the project success criterion for a project we need to understand what is the meaning of “success” of a project in hand. Further before we define the meaning of…
Agile vs Waterfall: project management
Agile vs Waterfall: Project Management What is waterfall? The waterfall model is a sequential uni-directional step approach, in which progress of each phase of project life cycle is seen as flowing steadily downwards like a waterfall through the phases of…