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Project Management Training Course 101 - Learning Project Management Vocabulary
Are you tired of sitting at staff meetings with nothing to contribute and wish you had learned Project Management 101? A good place to start is to learn the project management vocabulary. As you learn the words, you'll learn the concepts, and gain an understanding of the management techniques used by professionals in all fields. At the very least, you will recognize the phrases as actual terms and not just a peculiar way of putting things.
The boss wants somebody to volunteer to do the Work Breakdown Structure. If you don't know what it means, it sounds like it might be a game of stacking a deck of cards for all you know. But with a good PM vocabulary you'll recognize the phrase "Work Breakdown Structure," and know that it is "a tool in PM for breaking down a project in smaller, more manageable, brackets."
You've probably heard some form of the "80/20" rule, which is "a rule about the relation between cause and effect. E.g. 80% of sales is an effect of 20% of the advertising." But then you hear something about a "Pareto Diagram." Whaaa? Go to Project Management 101 to find out what it is and what it has to do with the 80/20 rule.
Knowing PM vocabulary will enable you to not confuse CPI with CPR, even if you are not qualified to perform either one. Same with not confusing EMV with an EMT. Little things like that can get you started down the right path and gain a better understanding of how your workplace operates. Project Management 101 gives you the definitions of nearly every term you will run into as well as a clearly-structured breakdown of the different techniques and processes in good PM.
Project Tools are "the charts, scorecards, methods and models used to manage a project," but what are PROPS? In the world of project management, PBS does NOT stand for Public Broadcasting Station, but you'll find it's a useful thing to learn.
You might have an idea what a Flow Chart is, but how about a GANTT Chart? Or an ishikawa diagram? Why are the latter two as important as the Flow Chart? Do you know what country your boss is going to when he wins the Deming Prize? Find out the answers to this and dozens of other questions at Project Management 101.
By: Fred Erixo:
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