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PERT – Why is it important?

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PERT is a project management tool used to schedule, organize, estimate and coordinate tasks within a project. PERT stands for Program Evaluation Review Technique, a methodology developed by the U.S. Navy in the 1950s to manage the Polaris submarine missile program It has two variants PERT Chart – used for project scheduling PERT estimation also known as three point estimation Pert Chart A PERT chart is nothing but graphical depiction of a project. It is similar to a network diagram. It consisting of numbered nodes, in the form of circles or rectangles, representing events, or milestones in the project linked […]

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What is Agile and its Principles?

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What is Agile? Agile framework is defined by different sources differently. There is no one right or wrong. Below are few thoughts on Agile to understand it. As defined by Wikipedia: “Agile software development is a group of software development methods based on iterative and incremental development, where requirements and solutions evolve through collaboration between self-organizing, cross functional teams. It promotes adaptive planning, evolutionary development and delivery, a time-boxed iterative approach, and encourages rapid and flexible response to change. It is a conceptual framework that promotes foreseen interactions throughout the development cycle” As per Highsmith 2002 “Agility is the ability

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What is TDD and its phases?

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Test driven development – TDD, as its name describes is based on test first approach. Tests drives the development. In a very simple language Test Driven Development is nothing but frequent or fast cycles of testing, coding and refactoring with testing before coding. The speed of these cycles is such that it’s not possible to do so in a manual way. Therefore TDD is a computer programming based methodology that consists of small rapid iterations. TDD has the following steps: Think & write test cases Red – Failure of test case Green – Code and get the new test case

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How Project Schedule activities are related?

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Project scheduling is a constant activity for a Project Manager. There are multiple challenges a project managers face when it comes to making sure the timelines are met and the project is going as per schedule or project schedule is able to absorb the challenges. It’s very important to understand for a project manager how different activities are related to each other. Without which any adoption or control of project schedule will be near to impossible. Relationships in a network diagram are defined depending upon the type of project and project needs/constraints. From PMP® prospective, there are four types of

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What is Kanban?

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In today’s Agile world where waterfall becomes complete, not for many customers, Kanban is a very common term. Many of us assume from the word itself that it’s a board which is managed to work in agile environment. Though it’s not wrong to say Kanban is a board or informational card, there are more bites to it. This concept has been publicized by Toyota by introducing and implementing successful Just in Time concepts. Just In Time concept emphasizes on no/minimal inventories, which did wonders when implemented across organizations in terms of cost savings. As it’s clear from JIT concept, Kanban

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How Lead and Lag helps in Scheduling?

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Lead and Lag are two closely related terms which are commonly used in project scheduling and planning. Project Manager, while working on the schedule and activities of its project, has to closely put these two in place. These are the concepts used to derive the relationships among different activities of the project. Lead denotes acceleration of the following activity or we can say that following activity in full some or partially will start in parallel to first activity. In PMBOK® also lead is described as the amount of time whereby a successor activity can be advanced with respect to a

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Procurement in Project Management: What you need to know?

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A great help in preparing for the PMP exam Let us start with a small practical story.. .While implementing the project the project manager goes to the procurement manager and tells him that “I need a seller now!”.  What do you think the procurement manager replies? “Not a problem. We already have a procurement process in place which is designed in such a way that we can find the best seller who offers the best price and gets the work done. The complete process can take 4 to 8 weeks and I hope you have accounted for the same in

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Webinar recording on Agile in a nutshell

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This presentation provides a comprehensive overview of agile methodologies. This webinar is meant for the busy and the curious professionals who are interested in finding out more about the terminology and buzzwords associated with agile. It also give you a very good foundation to prepare for the Agile certifications such as PMI-ACP. Have a look at Webinar led by Indu S. Learn more about PMP at Whizlabs  

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Build Relationships and Win as a Team

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Insights to conflict Resolution Techniques Based on PMBOK 5.0   As we all know that project teams are not natural teams … they are a group of cross functional experts that come together as a team with the intention to resolve a common goal. Since people from different regions, cultures, nature, skills and expertise and so on… are working together, CONFLICTS are bound to arise. Although we often think ‘conflict’ is bad, it actually brings forward opportunities for improvement. Considering conflict on a healthier note as sometimes it really helps us access all the options available (specifically in a technical

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