Project Management

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The core knowledge units and topics within Project Management are as follows:

  • Project Management Terminology
  • Program Management and Governance
    • Project management office
    • Prioritization
  • Project phases
  • Managing Project Teams
    • Project Team Planning
    • Managing cultural diversity
    • Working on virtual teams
    • Managing globally distributed project teams
    • Sourcing relationships
    • User/client relationships
    • Motivating team members
    • Leadership, power, and conflict
    • Negotiation
    • Collaboration
  • Managing Project Communication
    • Key issues in project communication
    • Enhancing team communication
    • Using collaboration technologies
  • Project Initiation and Planning
  • Project Scope
  • Project Scheduling
    • Common problems in project scheduling
    • Techniques for project scheduling
  • Project Resources
    • Types of resources
      • Human resources
      • Financial resources
      • Time resources
    • Techniques for managing project resources
  • Project Quality
    • Measurement of project quality
    • Threats to project quality
    • Tools for managing project quality
  • Project Risk
    • Types of project risk
    • Tools for managing project risk
  • Procurement
    • Ways to procure IT resources
    • Managing the procurement process
  • Project Execution & Control
    • Managing project execution
    • Monitoring progress and managing change
    • Documentation and communication
    • Common problems in project execution
    • Obtaining information regarding progress
    • Cost control
    • Change control
  • Project closure
    • Administrative closure
    • Personnel closure
    • Contractual closure
    • Project auditing
  • Project Management Standards
    • Project Management Body of Knowledge
    • PMI standards
    • IEEE standards