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What is Project Management?

The application of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to a broad range of activities to meet the requirements of the particular project. Project management knowledge and practices are best described in terms of their component processes. These processes can be placed into five process groups (initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing) and nine knowledge areas (project integration management, project scope management, project time management, project cost management, project quality management, project human resource management, project communications management, project risk management and project procurement management)


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Articles on Project Management:

Risk Management in Software Development Projects

Quality Management in Software Development Projects

The Tale of Three Project Managers

Towards a Project-Centric World

Project Management Proverbs

So You Want To Be A Project Manager?

Successful Projects: It's Not Rocket Science

There is no worse person to be than the project manager at the end of a failed project. As an IT project manager, I have experienced that feeling and I can tell you it's not nice. IT projects are particularly difficult to manage. In fact there really aren't any IT projects, just projects that have elements of IT in them.

The trouble with these projects is that often you are doing something that hasn't been done before, is unproven or cutting edge. Customers expect a good result not excuses, even though these projects are frequently a journey into the unknown. If we take the construction industry, building a new bridge for instance, we have been building bridges for hundreds of years and know how to do it. We understand how things are going to happen, in what order and the expected result. This is rarely the case with IT projects.

Avoiding the common pitfalls of IT project management is not rocket science, it is simply a case of taking some sensible measures. Identified here are five killer mistakes of project management:

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Don't Try This at Home: Seven Rules to Guarantee Project Failure

Rule 1. Deliver, Deliver and Deliver

Rule 2. Planning Is for Wimps

Rule 3. Whip Your Team to Higher Performance

Rule 4. Communication Is for Losers

Rule 5. The Big-Bang Effect

Rule 6. Common Sense Rules!

Rule 7. Rub Your Clients the Right Way

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PMI Certifications.

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The Project Management Institute (PMI) represents the world's largest professional community engaged in the promotion, maintenance, and advancement of project management practices worldwide.

PMP Certification enrich your knowledge of the skills, tools, and techniques involved in effective project management, and also enhance your employment prospects, and leads to earn better. 

PMI Certification Courses:

  • Project Management Professional (PMP)
  • Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
  • Project Management Professional PMP: Project Management Framework and Project Initiation
  • Project Management Professional PMP: Core Facilitating Project Planning Processes
  • Project Management Professional PMP: Project Execution
  • Project Management Professional PMP: Project Control, Project Closing, and Professional Responsibility
  • Project Management Professional PMP: Practice Exams

THE ABOVE COURSES ARE PART OF THE BUSINESS SKILLS PACKAGE


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Certified Software Project Manager (CSPM)

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The need for improved and more reliable Software Project Management calls for professionals who can effectively design, manage, test, and monitor the status of software projects.  Organizations now demand high quality software, delivered on time and within budget.  Certification is recommended as a means to define the Common Body of Knowledge for the practice of software project management, and to evaluate an individual’s ability to apply that knowledge to practice.  

 The Certified Software Project Manager program is intended to establish standards for initial qualification, and continuing improvement of professional competence.  This certification program helps to: 

  1. Define the tasks (Domains) associated with software project management activities in order to evaluate mastery of these activities.
  2. Demonstrate an individual’s willingness to improve professionally.
  3. Acknowledge attainment of an acceptable standard of professional competency.
  4. Aid organizations in selecting and promoting qualified individuals.
  5. Motivate personnel having software project management responsibilities to maintain their professional competency.
  6. Assist individuals in improving and enhancing their organization’s software project management programs (i.e., provide a mechanism to lead a professional).