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... for meetings. They are essential for collaboration and decision making in projects and they revolve around key project management activities such as cost, sch ... and cost. Project managers can use their responsibility as an opportunity to implement strategies for creating and managing effective meetings.

...fore crucial to manage scheduling closely. A project schedule includes the projects milestones, deliverables and deadlines, etc. with duration estimate. The schedule is used for planning and to foresee when a project is estimated to finish. A critical path is a sequence of activities that determines the sho

...jects. In order to minimize uncertainties and unforeseeable events related to a project, risks are identified and managed throughout the project lifecycl In order to control and manage risks, the Risk Management Process (RMP) is used. RMP is

...the project and the time span over which the costs and benefits are going to be spread<ref> ...n, however, related on how the projects should get the money from in order to run.

...tainty converse all of the environmental conditions in which a project has to operate, e.g. costs of people or materials, etc. <ref name= Taylor> Taylor, ...o> Geraldi, Joana | Thuesen, Christian | Oehmen, Josef | 2016 | "How to DO projects" | Uncertainty |(Version 0.5)</ref>

...omplete project activities. And to do this the project manager needs tools to identify which team members fits into which team role and here can Belbin's ...tions, the Worlds Bank and thousands of organizations throughout the world to enhance individual and team performance. <ref name="Belbin_associates"> 201

...nager must be able to analyze the situation and chose the correct approach to conflict management based on the information he or she has available. In do ...ational Conflict provides a framework for assessing and acting accordingly to the type of conflict.<ref name="Book2">''Jones, Gareth. 7th, 2013. Organiza

...s the weakest link in the chain. A Five Focusing Steps methodology is used to identify an eliminate constraints of an organization as well as being a too ...s the pace of a process in a production line. However TOC is also extended to apply an execution of a project as well.

...oftware development published 1991 broadened usage of the technique aiming to continuous development of valuable software. <ref> ''http://www.scruminc.c *Responding to change over following the plan <ref> ''http://agilemanifesto.org'' Manifest

...evertheless, the V-Model is still widely used and is an interesting method to approach project management in a very structured way. In what follows, many ... stakeholders, artefacts to document the project, and management mechanism to ensure a relevant management style.<ref name="NumberOne">“Fundamentals of

...hods were developed, focusing on alternative risk measures that could lead to linearization of the portfolio optimization problem <ref>Sharpe, W. F. (197 ...te projects taking in consideration the interaction and influence of other projects.<ref>Thorp, J. (2003). The information paradox: realizing the business bene

...uence the risk reduction of project failures. In this article we are going to illustrate the so-called PRINCE2 method, focused on processes and continue ...factors on investigating, evaluating, attaining & capitalising on Prince2 (Projects in Controlled Environments) Project Management certification.''</ref>

...lly important to control how the different tasks are progressing. In order to get an overview of the current situation of the project, we should compare ...the performance of the project at any time, but also analyze future trends to estimate the cost and time of completion of the project.

...ed location as main unit of analysis. The results were ground breaking due to the fact that around 380 m2 were built per day of construction. The 102 lev ... critique has been raised about the CPM-method in relation to construction projects, as it does not sufficiently support construction management during executi

...anagement point of view. First, the extreme mathematical complexity needed to treat some problems is an important limitation. Secondly, the presumed rati ...and more rational perspective for the manager that can be used in addition to usual managerial skills.

...n added benefit is that the perceivable metric often creates a common goal to '''increase the pace''' within the project team. ...the project team. Each sprint is usually followed by a grace-period of 0.5 to 1 week during which a sprint review and sprint retrospective is usually hel

... management tools. It will also explore the usage of this method in todays projects, its advantages and limitations. ...ed long before the deadline and most of the people attributed this success to PERT.

...a good idea for a company to use Lean as project management tool, in order to maintain their competitiveness. ...ect management tool. Lean can even be ineffective and destructive compared to other project management tools, in some cases. The theory will be supported

...ions/multi-project-management''] ''Description of a MPM'' </ref>. You have to be careful about information you can share or not while staying meaningful ...gether. MPM is often understood as just many single projects that you have to achieve one by one reaching each deliverables planned. So,MPM is located be

...day’s projects, where, they tend to require changes very frequently, due to a number of reasons such as Stakeholders changing their mind often, news ab ...itable to face the common unexpected changes that come up during today’s projects.