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  1. What are Conflict Resolution Skills?
    Conflicts during the project are must and cannot be avoided. when different people work together, they ...
  2. What are Technical Skills?
    Although it is difficult for one person (i.e. program manager) to possess all the required technical, ...
  3. What is Project Plan?
    To carry out a particular project, planning is the fundamental element. a project must be planned ...
  4. What are Organizational Skills?
    Program managers work in the organizations so they must know the way of working for and ...
  5. What are Administrative Skills?
    Administrative skills include the skill of understanding the planning, budgeting, staffing etc. it also includes the ...
  6. What is Risk Analysis?
    Every project has some uncertainty. it is important for the project team to identify and assess ...
  7. What is Monte Carlo Process?
    Uncertainties are associated with every project. these uncertainties and risks must be identified and analyzed byt ...
  8. What is Risk Handling?
    Risks and uncertainties occur during projects which are to be identified, assessed, analyzed and handled carefully. ...
  9. What is Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)?
    Program evaluation and review technique was developed in 1958 and 1959. a project involves planning and ...
  10. What is Mandatory Dependencies?
    Activities associated with the project are interdependent and linked together. a dependency is basically when one ...
  11. What is Discretionary Dependencies?
    After the project related activities are identified and listed, their sequence is established using a network ...
  12. What is External Dependencies?
    A work breakdown structure decomposes the project into its activities and tasks. however the most important ...
  13. What is Business Value?
    Where on one hand, a project is expected to deliver the requirements to customers, on the ...
  14. What is Program management?
    A program is basically the first-level element of a system. it is also called subsystem. a ...
  15. What is Operations Management?
    Although operations management is never studied under the project management field yet it is somewhat linked ...
  16. What is Project Phase?
    A project undergoes several phases during its life. the phases collectively are called project life-cycle. each ...
  17. What is Phase Gate?
    To ease the project management process, a project may be divided into different stages or phases. ...
  18. What is Project Management Process Group?
    Project management involves a set of different processes that are to be performed in order to ...
  19. What is Project Business Case?
    During a project, documentation is very important. it enables the project manager to record all the ...
  20. What is Project Benefits Management Plan?
    Documentation of a project is an important part of project management. documentation helps the organizations to ...
  21. What is Project Management Office?
    There are different types of organizational structures that can be adopted by the organizations. the management ...
  22. What is Enterprise Environmental Factors?
    Sometimes, a project is affected by its environment. the environmental factors that affect a project or ...
  23. What is Organizational Process Assets?
    Organizations work with different resources and assets. these can include plans, policies, processes, procedures, knowledge etc. ...
  24. What is Organizational System?
    When organizations carry out projects, they are performed under certain constraints that are imposed by the ...
  25. What is Governance?
    The general meaning of governance is the way of ruling or controlling. people responsible for running ...
  26. What is Management Elements?
    To run an organization, effective management is important. management is comprised of different components and aspects. ...
  27. What is Strategic and Business Management Skills?
    A project manager along with all the other skills also need strategic and business management skills. ...
  28. What is Power?
    The word 'power' is defined as the ability of a person to direct others in any ...
  29. What is Laissez Faire Leadership?
    Leadership refers to guide, motivate and influence people. a leader inspire others and is able to ...
  30. What is Transactional Leadership?
    Leadership is important in all the aspects of life. a leader is able to motivate and ...
  31. What is Servant leadership?
    A project manager is the leader of the project team.a project team members look up to ...
  32. What is Transformational Leadership?
    The act of leading and guiding a group of people is called leadership. a leader is ...
  33. What is Charismatic Leadership?
    A project manager is the leader of a project team. a project manager provides guidance and ...
  34. What is Interactional Leadership?
    In order to efficiently perform the assigned tasks and successfully complete the project, project team members ...
  35. What is Personality?
    Personality is a set of different behaviors, and emotional patterns within an individual which are affected ...
  36. What is Complexity?
    The word 'complexity' refers to something being complicated. projects can be of different types, easy or ...
  37. What is Agile Approach?
    Different approaches are used in project management. one of them is agile approach. agile approach is ...
  38. What is Expert Judgment?
    Usually, an expert's opinion is required for a specific area of knowledge. the judgment provided by ...
  39. What is Facilitation?
    A project manager must possess some specific set of skills to efficiently manage the project team. ...
  40. What is Project Management Plan?
    Project management is basically the application of different tools and skills etc. to carry out a ...
  41. What is Communications Management Plan?
    Communication is a crucial part of project. it is important for a project team to communicate ...
  42. What is Stakeholders Engagement Plan?
    Stakeholder is a person, an organization or a group of people or organizations that is involved ...
  43. What is Resources Management Plan?
    Resources are any physical item needed for the project. resources include equipment, material, people etc. during ...
  44. What is Procurement Management Plan?
    Procurement is defined as acquiring the required. during a project, several different things are required to ...
  45. What is Cost Baseline?
    Cost baseline is basically a detailed budget of the project. the cost estimates of all the ...
  46. What is Performance Measurement Baseline?
    When a project is carried out, it is necessary to measure its performance in order to ...
  47. What is Cost Management Plan?
    A very necessary part of project management is the estimation of costs associated with the project ...
  48. What is Quality Management Plan?
    Just as important it is to complete the project on time and provide the required deliverables ...
  49. What is Scope Management Plan?
    Before starting a project, the scope of the project is defined. scope includes agreed deliverables, objectives ...
  50. What is Schedule Baseline?
    Customer's requirements are to be fulfilled to carry out a successful project. while performing a project, ...
  51. What is Requirements Management Plan?
    Requirements of customer for a particular project must be identified and managed so that the requirements ...
  52. What is Scope Baseline?
    Before starting the project, the scope of the project must be defined. a document that can ...
  53. What is Change Management Plan?
    It is important to identify any changes in the project. changes in the project that are ...
  54. What is Configuration Management Plan?
    Changes in a project are needed to be identified. not only the changes in the schedule ...
  55. What is Management Review?
    It is not a good practice to check the performance of the project after its completion ...
  56. What is Requirements Traceability Matrix?
    The first step of a project is to determine the requirements set by the customer. the ...
  57. What is Milestone List?
    Milestones are basically specific points in a project which are to be achieved to successfully complete ...
  58. What is Project Management Information System?
    With the increase in the use of technology, project management is also moving towards computer tools. ...
  59. What is Work Performance Data?
    When a project is carried out, it is important to monitor the performance of the project ...
  60. What is Issue Log?
    Issues and problems during a project are inevitable. as different people work together, or different components ...