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How to Build a Successful Project Team

October 6th, 2011 No comments

Project team is a group of members, which are expert in field and perform task for the success of project. For successful project management project team plays an important role. Success or failure of the project totally depends upon the team members, who design and build the project.

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Four phases of Project Life cycle

September 28th, 2011 No comments

Business is a term which is related to the is related with the production if good and selling of good to earn the profit. Project Life Cycle from the business view is related with the Production of the Product to the selling of the product.

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Portfolio Management vs Program Management

September 24th, 2011 1 comment

In a Company or Organization Management is an act by using which all the activities are organized with a specific manner to achieve the desired target or goal. There are certain Management functions like planning, staffing Directing, reporting, Budgeting etc.

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Best Practices of Project Management for Project Success

September 23rd, 2011 No comments

Today each organization has their own strategy to follow good management practices to achieve the goal of the project undertaken by them. It is imperative that projects are manage to win the confidence of stake holders, realize efficiency and effectiveness in all phases of the project and to improve the life cycle of the projects.

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Tips for writing a good Product Requirements Document for new Business Analysts

September 17th, 2011 No comments

A good product requirement document is very important for a good Quality product. Through out the product life cycle, Product Requirement Document (PRD) has a great role. It is generally created by the domain expert or subject matter expert of the product owner company. It it is an existing product, company can take the feedback of the product from the end users and users can contribute to enhance the Quality of the product.

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PMBOK Knowledge Areas and Processes

May 9th, 2011 No comments

As per PMI’s PM BOK, there are 9 knowledge areas covering total of 42 processes related to all five phases of the project life cycle. These five phases are not process groups.

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Benefits of Software Metrics and Measurements

July 10th, 2009 No comments

Metrics collection is an excellent way track the project, measure the performance.  Software metrics provides objective information to help the project managers to do:

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Comparison of Software Development Models

June 10th, 2009 No comments

Different Software Development models have different features and properties. Selection of the software development model depends on the nature of project and client. Here, I will try to give a comparison of various software development models with three parameters:

 

1. Contribution to Quality

2. Risks Associated

3. Context of adoption

 

Model Name: Waterfall Model

Contribution to Quality: Phase End Checks

Risks Associated: Expects a task to be well done in the first go

Context of adoption: When the requirements are structured and competence is high

 

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What is a Project and its characteristics

March 31st, 2009 No comments

The word PROJECT comes from the Latin word PROJECTUM from the Latin verb PROICERE; which means “to throw something forwards” which in turn comes from PRO-, which denotes something that precedes the action of the next part of the word in time and ICERE, “to throw”. The word PROJECT thus actually originally meant “something that comes before anything else happens”.

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