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Agility vs Scale in Business Recently I was watching a video about entrepreneurship. This was going viral and people were appreciating the talk. I wanted to analyze and understand what the speaker wants to say, what people are understanding, and what should be learning from the talk. I wrote a paragraph on this, but very…
Sustainable Development Goals What are the United Nations 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)? No Poverty – Economic growth must be inclusive to provide sustainable jobs and promote equality. Zero Hunger – The food and agriculture sector offers key solutions for development, and is central for hunger and poverty eradication. Good Health and Well-Being – Ensuring healthy lives and…
# Agile Practices Reference and Detail of the Practice 1 Product Vision / Vision Statement Scrum Alliance James Shore 2 Product Backlog Scrum Alliance Mountain Goat 3 User Stories Wiki Scrum Alliance Cunningham Agile Modelling XP 4 Use Cases Wiki…
Why 6sigmastudy Certification? 6sigmastudy™ Six Sigma Certifications Other Six Sigma Certifications 1. Biggest accreditation body for Six Sigma certifications 6sigmastudy™ is the biggest accreditation body for Six Sigma certifications. 6sigmastudy™ has the largest Authorized Training Partner (A.T.P.) network of 2,100+ partners in 90+ countries. Other Six Sigma accreditation bodies are smaller and not as well-recognized as 6sigmastudy™. 2….
What is Six Sigma? Six Sigma Introduction Six Sigma is a data-driven, customer-focused, and result-oriented methodology that uses statistical tools and techniques to systematically eliminate defects and inefficiencies to improve processes. It is a systematic method to measure and analyze the business processes to identify critical factors affecting business results, thereby improving the processes and…
Input-output of a process can be a subsidiary plan, status (like Approved Change Request ), or project document. Below is the list of input-output name and their frequency of use in PMBOK 6th edition. The frequency of a document below shows the number of times that document is used/modified/created across different processes. # Input/Output Name…
PMBOK 6 Tools and Techniques PMBOK 6th Edition refers to the following 65 broad techniques to manage a project. If you detail these 65 tools and techniques then you may easily end with a list of 200+ tools and techniques. For example, if you detail the “Data Analysis” tool and technique then you will have…
Agile HR Background Being in IT Industry for around 25+ years and played all kinds of roles from a programmer, analyst, leader, manager, delivery head, trainer, coach, and consultant I have observed the relationship between a Project Delivery team and HR team very closely. I have seen a change in this relationship; a change in…
PMBOK 6 Processes & Process Groups Project Management Body of Knowledge 6th Edition has 49 processes, across 10 knowledge areas and 5 process groups. How these 49 processes are distributed across different knowledge areas and process groups can be visualized from the tabl below. Integration Management Initiating Planning Executing Monitoring and Controlling Closing Scope Management…
Process Groups and Processes in PMBOK 6 PMBOK 6th Edition Process Groups and related processes. PMBOK6 has 49 processes in 5 process groups. The Initiating Processes The Planning Processes The Executing Processes The Monitoring & Controlling Processes The Closing Process
Microsoft Project Online also known as Project Online is an excellent planning tool. It has very powerful inbuilt reporting and analytics templates. These templates can be customized by users based on their needs.
PowerBI is a powerful tool for data analytics. This Business Intelligence tool is developed by Microsoft. This application was originally conceived by Thierry D’Hers and Amir Netz of the SQL Server Reporting Services Team at Microsoft. It was originally designed by Ron George in the summer of 2010 and named Project Crescent. Project Crescent was initially available…
Workshop Topics of PMI-ACP Exam Introduction PMI ACP exam expects from a candidate who is appearing for the exam that he must understand the following topics. It is an exhaustive check of the knowledge, skills, and attitude. This is the reason I love and value this certificate most over other methodology specific certification of the…
Introduction What is speaking? How to be an efficient and effective speaker? Everybody who can open his mouth has a tongue and a healthy vocal cord can speak. But, is everybody able to communicate effectively and achieve the objective of speaking? In this world where we have around 7000 languages, we had millions of wars in the last…
Balanced Score Card What is the difference between Dimension and Measures? In business intelligence (BI) there are two terms, Dimension, and Measures. Dimension is something which can be used for filtering, grouping purpose like department name, employee name, location, severity, priority, etc. The measure is something on which you can perform mathematical and statistical…
Nontechnical skills every project manager needs Interpersonal Skills To succeed in any profession you need to strike a balance between the art and science of that profession. Science is about processes, practices, techniques, tools, logic, etc. But art is about knowing what else is required to complete the work. It works as a glue between…
Challenging Your Team Background Karthik is working with the current company for the last 12 years. By virtue of his hard work and initiative, the company has done good progress in the last few years. In reward of this Karthik was also progressing in his career and now he is in a leadership position within…
Project Management with PMBOK What is Project? Without going into the PMBOK definition of a Project let us understand with an extremely simple example. “Go to Chennai and meet a family friend in the city and come back to Delhi by evening flight”. This idea you are discussing with your spouse one month before you…
When to Kill a Project? Introduction Any project is a temporary endeavor that must end on a given day. A project is an investment in a business objective or in some change initiative that is valuable from the sponsor’s perspective. The project’s output needs to justify the money spent by the sponsor and time and…
40 Commandments of Project Management In this article, I am trying to put Best Practices of Project Management in the form of 40 Commandments of Project Management. Project management is a complete subject like marketing, finance, or operation. It is not possible to bind do and don’t of this profession in certain commandments. But to…
All PMI Certifications at a glance Download This Table PMP Education & Experience>> Secondary degree (high school diploma, associate’s degree or the global equivalent)>> 7,500 hours leading and directing projects>> 35 hours of project management education >> Four-year degree>> 4,500 hours leading and directing projects>> 35 hours of project management education Fees:Member: US$405.00 / Non-member:…
Software Testing Confusing Terms I am sure that like me if you have been in the industry for quite some time then you must have argued with different stakeholders around the gaps in a software system and different people give it a different name. The choice of name is very important from the perspective of…
Settling Superiority of Customer Vendor Relationship Customer Vendor Relationship As a project manager, we are working for someone and we are taking service of someone. So, we are customer and vendor both. We hear from our seniors, elders, and society that a “customer is a god“. In some other cultures, we say a “customer is…
PMI-ACP Vs. Scrum Master Certification If you are looking for agile certification then a question may come to your mind which agile certification? There are many certification bodies and every certification body has 3-5 certifications based on the agile team role. Knowledge of agile methods, collaboration skills, and flexibility to adapt the complexity are the…
Agile Project Management Why Agile is popular in project management? We know that Agile practices are not new but the relevance of these practices in the 21st century is more. There are 200+ agile practices and all practices cannot be applied to all projects. Due to this reason experts have grouped agile practices and named…
Project Manager Responsibilities & Skills Required Who are Project Managers? A project manager is a person accountable for accomplishing the project objectives. The project objectives are defined by project stakeholders and they are negotiated and agreed upon with the project manager. Project objectives are related to either of these 6 aspects namely cost, quality, time,…
Project Success Criteria Introduction You ask yourself how many years you have been in project management? How many times you were waiting for a long to get the start of an exciting new project? How many times did you want to close an existing stressful project and want to start a new project on the…
Agile and Waterfall The debate of Waterfall Methodology vs Agile is one of the longest running debate in the project management world. In 20th millennia people supporting waterfall were winning and in 21st millennia people supporting agile are winning. What is the Waterfall Method? The waterfall model is a sequential uni-directional step approach, in which…
Enterprise Project Server 2016 This post I am using to share useful links and videos about Enterprise Project Server 2016 Links for Security Settings These 4 videos are very good and important to understand the overall security permissions system in Project Server. Video: Overview of permissions security Video: Permissions for security groups: Groups contain sets…
Difference between PMP and PRINCE2 Before taking up a project management certification, professionals do a lot of research and often get confused with the issue of choosing between the PMP and PRINCE2 certification. Both of these are reputed credentials in the field of project management. I have tried to give you an overview of the two certifications…
CMMI Version 1.3 (Summary) CMMI stands for Capability Maturity Model Integrated. CMMI Version 1.3 came into the market in November 2010. This version has three constellations and they apply to the acquisition, services, and software development industry. CMMI has 4 maturity stages starting from Level 2 to Level 5. Level 1 is considered a natural…
PMBOK 5 Process Summary Table (Acronyms) These acronyms are constructed by me and I use them in my workshop to help participants to practice faster by writing. If you draw a complete table 5 times while speaking louder it will register in your mind. Process names are long therefore I recommend people to use these…
PMBOK 5 Processes & Process Groups Project Management Body of Knowledge 5th Edition has 47 processes, across 10 knowledge areas and 5 process groups. How these 47 processes are distributed across different knowledge areas and process groups can be visualized from the table below. …
The data points below are related to Software Development State of Art in America. You can imagine what may be happening in other part of the world. United States spends more than $250 billion each year on IT application development of approximately 175,000 projects 31.1% of projects will be canceled before they ever get completed….
Change Request Management Introduction Project is an instrument of change. Hence during the project lifecycle changes are inevitable. Therefore Change Request in Project Management is an extremely important process in any project. Uncertainties in a project can be managed by using the concept of “Progressive Elaboration” and “Rolling Wave Planning” techniques. As a project…
Who uses PMBOK? PMBOK® (Project Management Body of Knowledge) guide book is an ANSI standard and used as a project management guiding standard in most parts of the world. There are 1,036,367 active PMP certified individuals and 314 chartered chapters across 214 countries and territories worldwide. PMBOK is the bible of these project managers spread…
PMI Exam Change Schedule 2013 Exam Planned Date to sit for Examination Study recommendation Examination Updated PMP® Prior to 31 July 2013 PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition 31/07/13 PMP® After 31 July 2013 PMBOK® Guide—Fifth Edition CAPM® Prior to 1 July 2013 PMBOK® Guide—Fourth Edition 01/07/13 CAPM® After 1 July 2013 PMBOK® Guide—Fifth Edition PMI-SP® Prior to 31 August…
PMI-ACP Exam Preparation Books Like PMBOK PMI does not have any guide book or standard for the PMI-ACP exam. PMI has published an exam content outline on their website and as per that you are recommended to study the following 11 books thoroughly before you go for the PMI-ACP exam. List of Recommended Books Agile…
PMI has three types of standards 1- Foundational Standards, 2- Practice Standards, and 3- Extensions. PMI conducts exam for 8 credentials PMP, CAPM, PgMP, PfMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, PMI-ACP, PMI-PBA. How these 14 standards of PMI are used for different PMI credential exams are mentioned in the table below. Sno Standard Certificate/Credentials Foundational Standards …
Behaviour that leads to Exceptional performance Here are key important behaviors that can make one a go-getter with a happy personal life, provided one understands them thoroughly and able to implement them. This article is inspired by several sources, books, articles & obviously my own lifestyle. What others think about is lessor important than what…
30 Ways of Conducting a Bad Business Meeting After analyzing the patterns of hundreds of meeting as a consultant, as a manager, as a normal participant, and as a boss I found these are the important points which you should take care of for a meeting. Invite everyone. You wouldn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings…
Tips of Effective Communication Introduction Managing is one of the biggest challenges for today’s project manager. Keeping the entire team on the same page, motivated for the project work and vision is a very difficult task when you are dealing with a virtual team. In this article, I am limiting myself to the communication aspect…
Disclosure: This is a complete made case with made-up numbers. The only purpose of this article is to help readers (non-technical, non-project professionals, beginner) understand key concepts of a project. This is a very simplistic view of the project therefore take it as a pinch of salt and do not assume that project management is…
