Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom – DIKW Pyramid : PMP/CAPM

Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Pyramid (DIKW Pyramid) So once we know about the Project Manager Competency Development (PMCD) Framework, it is time for us to start working on learning new skills. Learning, practising, mastering new skills not easy and requires commitment and patience. This is where the Data, Information, Knowledge and Wisdom Pyramid (DIKW […]

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What Is Project Charter and Its Importance? – PMP/CAPM

Project Charter: An Ultimate Guide to Showcase Your Project A Project Charter is a versatile document that formally authorizes a project or a phase. It defines the reason of establishing the project and assigns it to whoever is worthy of doing it. A project needs descriptive assistance through which others can understand its technicalities. Many […]

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Agile Project Management – PMP/CAPM

Agile Project Management lets you produce minor deliveries i.e shippable functionality in an efficient and competent way in every iteration. It’s an ideal choice for teams who are working in product development, software design, corporate analysis and related domains. Agile, Lean, JIT is the terms which are IN nowadays for so many reasons, one of […]

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Hammock Activity – PMP/CAPM

Many Project Managers use the terms Hammock activity and Summary activity interchangeably. I do agree that largely they have the same function on the project, but objectives are different for adding a summary and hammock activity. So before going into detail a quick overview of the Summary Activity is as follows; Summary Activity Summary activity […]

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Dangling Activities – PMP/CAPM

Dangling Activities Dangles are loosely-tied activities in the project schedules which means that they don’t have defined start or end dates. Project Schedule with Dangle or Dangling activities is not a close diagram and have open loops which make it’s logic incomplete. This happens because of missing clear, legitimate and logical relationships within activities of […]

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Validate Scope and Control Quality – PMP/CAPM

Control Quality, Validate Scope and Quality Assurance are three terminologies which keep bugging every new PMP Aspirant.  In the following article, I tried to make the two terms clear and then you might want to read the other one to be crystal clear with these terminologies. Control Quality Control Quality is the process of supervising […]

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Quality Assurance and Control Quality – PMP/CAPM

The following write up explains the difference between the Quality Assurance and the control Quality. Quality is the degree to which a set of inherent (existing) characteristics fulfils requirements. ISO 9000 Quality Assurance A set of activities that ensure quality in the processes by which end products are developed. Quality Assurance (QA) is the procedure […]

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Project Float and Free Float- PMP/CAPM

Free Float The amount of duration in which the scheduled activity can be deferred without postponing the subsequent scheduled activities. In project management, free float refers to the duration that spans from the finishing point of a scheduled activity while extending to the upcoming planned activities. It is measured by subtracting the primary end of […]

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