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Der PMBOK® Guide - Sechste Ausgabe enthält erstmals Anleitungen zur Anwendung guter Projektmanagement-Praktiken innerhalb agiler und adaptiver Umgebungen. Zusätzlich zu diesem neuen Wissen ist er damit eine der besten und vielseitigsten Ressourcen für die heutigen Anwender im Projektmanagement. Jeder Abschnitt (bzw. Wissensgebiet) des Guide hat nun vier einführende Teile: Grundsätze, Trends und neu entstehende Praktiken, Überlegungen...

Project management professionals are fortunate to have access to a rich and growing body of tools and metrics to aid in their success. However, that is just what they are: tools and metrics. The industry is no less prone than any other discipline to the problems inherent in managing people. In fact, strong arguments can be made that project management offers far more. This important book focuses on one of the nine knowledge areas of A Guide to the...

The Practice Standard for Scheduling - Third Edition provides the latest thinking regarding good and accepted practices in the area of scheduling for a project. Aligned with the A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) - Sixth Edition, this updated practice standard expounds on the information contained in Section 6 on Project Schedule Management of the PMBOK® Guide. In this new edition of the practice standard, you will...

Governance of Portfolios, Programs, and Projects: A Practice Guide is a complementary document to PMI's foundational standards. This practice guide provides guidance to organizations and practitioners on how to implement or enhance governance on portfolios, programs, and projects. Although elements of portfolio, program, and project governance appear throughout PMI's foundational standards; this practice guide provides further understanding and differentiation...

The Practice Standard for Work Breakdown Structures-Second Edition supplies project managers and team members with direction for the preliminary development and the implementation of the WBS. Consistent with A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)-Third Edition, the WBS Practice Standard presents a standard application of the WBS as a project management tool. Throughout the book, the reader will learn what characteristics...

Offering concrete examples of the best practices, this groundbreaking guide provides a relevant, applicable, and useful resource to help project management practitioners anticipate and comprehend complexity, and apply the appropriate tools and techniques for their organizations. --

Most projects present teams with challenges relating to time, cost and scope. Careful management of these project elements allows projects to be completed successfully. In order to guide a project's direction, project managers utilize the process of configuration management. Project configuration management is the collective body of processes, activities, tools, and methods used to manage certain items during the project lifecycle. Configuration management...

Recent research has shown that organizations continue to experience project issues associated with the poor performance of requirements-related activities-a core task for the practice of business analysis. In fact, poor requirements practices are often cited as a leading cause of project failure in PMI's Pulse of the Profession™ surveys. Business Analysis for Practitioners: A Practice Guide provides practical resources to tackle the project-related...