Stop the battle: How forward-thinking organizations benefit from Agile-Waterfall hybrid
There has never yet been a more principled battle among project management mavens than that of agile vs. waterfall methodologies. The proponents of both movements claim to have quite weighty pros...
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What is a Project Baseline?
Even new or accidental project managers know that nothing ever goes according to plan. Any deviation from the project schedule or scope, whether it’s for the better or for the worse, throws off...
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What is Constructability in Project Management and How to Use it
What is constructability? Well, it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: the ability to construct. A basic definition of constructability is: how efficiently and easily can a structure be...
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Comparing project management methodologies: Agile method vs Waterfall method
There is a lot of debate in the PM universe around the topic “which PM methodology is superior?” and why. The thing is though, there is no such thing as “the best PM methodology”. Each methodology...
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How effective project milestones planning can influence your project’s success
Imagine if all tasks, big and small, in a project were given the same significance in terms of importance and management. A project plan may consist of dozens, hundreds or even thousands of tasks...
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Best practices in Gantt charts in IT management
With dozens of tasks and subtasks to be completed, an IT manager can benefit highly from the features that Gantt charts provide. For example, when setting up a Gantt chart, you need to think about...
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Work breakdown structure elements: How to use it
A work breakdown structure is a document that illustrates the whole project broken down into smaller components, which add up together to form the final product. Basically, it’s like a visual map...
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How to Define Project Deliverables
This article is the first of the ‘Before the Project Starts’ series. In this series I’ll explain what a project manager needs to do before the start of a project to eliminate any uncertainties....
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