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There comes a time in almost every project manager’s career when they need to give away a project. There are many reasons why this happens, such as: You were given a critical project and need to lighten your workload; the project requires skills that are better suited another PM; you have a higher priority project that needs your full attention, or – gulp! – the client wants someone else to manage their project. (This last one never feels good, but it happens.)

No matter the reason,…

Working on a team presents a unique set of challenges — something that just happens when you put more than one person in a room and ask them to achieve a goal together. The challenges are as old as primitive man and include head bangers like: people don’t always pull their weight, roles and assignments are fuzzy and team members have different views and work styles.

This doesn’t mean we have to…

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You are managing a software development project. You want to create the basis that will be used later on for estimating, scheduling, executing, monitoring, and controlling the project work. Which process performs this activity?



a) Create WBS

b) Define Scope

c) Define Activities

d) Create Project Management…

No Estimates is a concept that I had not come across until very recently. The basic premise of No Estimates is there is significant inaccuracy in software development estimates. Even when you spend a lot of time estimating, it is still not necessarily accurate enough to give you an exact picture. Therefore, the time spent estimating does not give you…

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If you studied to take your Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam using A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) fourth edition and had to reschedule your exam date to on/after July 31, 2013, then you now have to take the PMP Exam based on the new PMBOK® Guide fifth edition. The Project Management Institute (PMI)® will not make any exceptions to this rule.

There are notable…

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There is a gripping scene in director Randall Wallace’s 2002 We Were Soldiers, which dramatizes the 1965 Battle for Ia Drang during the Vietnam War. Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (played by Mel Gibson) is a riveting portrait leader who can make tough decisions under extreme duress. In this telling scene, his unit is being overrun by a much larger North Vietnamese force. The battle raging just a few yards around him, Moore intently stands for a few precious seconds, bullets flying around him,…

High-performance teams are not desirable in achieving innovation and speed – they are essential. However, most companies underestimate or overlook the benefit and opportunity that come from high-performance teams. In our work with world-class technology companies, high-performance teams are, quite frankly, part of their DNA and contribute to their competitive advantage. There are many examples of dysfunctional teams that have heroically pushed products over the finish line, but what many do…

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You managed a project with over 60 team members to design a new sports car. In the project kickoff meeting you assured the team that good performers would be rewarded. At the project closing meeting, you only awarded incentive bonuses to two team members. A client who was present asked why only two team members were provided reward bonuses. What did you miss…

It's always interesting to discuss about products, which have all the luck of popularity among users and trust from investors - this clearly says about the quality.

Sure, along with numerous good points Asana has some disadvantages, and some of them are important.

The first problem relates to invisibility of issues' structure and it doesn't allow…

The Project Charter within Project Management is one of the most important tasks to be assumed to formally authorise a project. The aim of the Project Charter when managing projects and programmes is to detail the overall vision of the project, objectives, scope, deliverables, organisation and the implementation plan. It helps you to establish the direction, organisation and implementation of the project. It will also ensure you control your project scope as you will define exactly what it…

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What is risk tolerance?



A) Risks created by tolerating customer behavior.

B) Willingness to accept varying degrees of risk.

C) Risks created by zero tolerance.

D) Being tolerant if stakeholders are willing to accept risks.



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Hint: Look for the “least strange”…

I attended a training seminar the other day on finance and accounting for non financial managers. It was an interesting training course. If you consider the constraints within which project managers must work to, one is financial. The last time I studied anything remotely close was accounting 101 during the first year of my under graduate degree some 17 years…

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Tim is working on an electronic manufacturing project. In his project he wants to establish a warranty for some of the precision parts he is buying. What risk response strategy is he using?



A) Mitigate

B) Avoid

C) Accept

D) Transfer



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Hint: Tim is shifting the negative impact of the…

No matter whether global warming is real or not, we cannot sustain the current environmental damage that we as mankind are creating.



If we put forward a business proposal for a plan that involved vast investment and exploitation of a finite and non renewal-able source we would never get the project off the ground.…

Anyone spending a decent amount of time in project management field will sometimes have projects from time to time that experience significant difficulties. For all the planning, it is never possible to predict all the eventualities and therefore foreseeing all risks. Projects are by nature more risky than other business activities. It is always useful to…

I have taken a bit of time mulling over this post. I was born inBangladesh, but have been an expat for most of my life. As I looked on in horror at the calamitous scenes from the garment factory collapse…

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You developed alternative schedules based on the best-case and worst-case scenarios in your project. You want to keep these alternative schedules stored in your project, in case of changes in project resources. Where would you store alternative schedules?



a) Schedule Baseline

b) Schedule Data

c) Project Documents

d) Project scope…