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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to project management: Project management – discipline of planning, organizing, securing, managing, leading, and controlling resources to achieve specific goals. A project is a temporary endeavor with a defined beginning and end (usually time-constrained, and often constrained by funding or deliverables), undertaken to meet unique goals and objectives, Continue Reading

Social project management is a non-traditional way of organizing projects and performing project management. It is, in its simplest form, the outcome of the application of the social networking (i.e. Facebook) paradigm to the context of project ecosystems, as a continued response to the movement toward distributed, virtual teams. Distributed virtual teams lose significant communication value normally present when groups Continue Reading

A Project Management Office, abbreviated to PMO, is a group or department within a business, agency or enterprise that defines and maintains standards for project management within the organization. The PMO strives to standardize and introduce economies of repetition in the execution of projects. The PMO is the source of documentation, guidance and metrics on the practice of project management Continue Reading

Project Management Professional (PMP) is an internationally recognized professional designation offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). There are currently 773,840 active PMP certified individuals and 286 chartered chapters across 210 countries and territories worldwide. The exam is based on the PMI Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), and the prerequisites are: Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or Continue Reading

Refresh your perspective on the purposes technology should be fulfilling in your project organization so that you can begin to obtain more value from it. This article reviews the purposes that technology should fulfill by looking at how the aviation field utilizes technology to fulfill its objective of creating predictable, successful outcomes. see more Check More at https://www.projectmanagementcompanion.com Continue Reading

The accidental project manager is term that is used often in the project management community around the world but what does it mean? Does this term has negative, positive, or neutral connotation? What are the risks (threats and opportunities) that are associated with this term, or more proper to say, the management practices associated with this term? This is a Continue Reading