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PMT Week 1 Flashcards

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An Introduction to Project Management

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Exploring Project Management Roles and Transferable Skills

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Flexible Planning and The Value of a Project Manager

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Handling Ambiguity

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Both require resources, including human resources (people).

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Both are constrained to limited, as opposed to unlimited, resources.

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Both are managed—that is, planned, executed, and controlled.

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Both have objectives.

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Specific outcomes: Products or results

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Definite start and end dates: Projects don’t go on forever

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Established budgets: Required amounts of people (human resources), funds, equipment,

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A product refers to any service or item that an organisation creates to serve a customer need

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A process is a series of routine steps to perform a particular function

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A program can describe two different situations. First, it’s a set of goals that gives rise to specific

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Input. The input to a process consists of the raw data that is needed to start the process. For

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Tools and techniques. Tools and techniques are the methods used to operate on the input to

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Output. The output is the outcome or the result of a process. Each process contains at least one

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Information: Accurate, timely, and complete data for the planning, performance monitoring, and final

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Communication: Clear, open, and timely sharing of information with appropriate individuals and groups.

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Commitment: Team members’ personal promises to produce the agreed- upon results on time and within

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48 percent of projects missing delivery dates,

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43 percent missing budget targets, and

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31 percent failing to meet an organisation’s goals

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Planning and Organising

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Managing tasks

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Budgeting

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Controlling cost

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Project management

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Program management

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Portfolio management

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Organisational project management

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Project management office

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The art: Relates to the use of skills such as influencing, organising, strategising, and other

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The science: To tailor the efforts of your team in a systematic process of managing project work

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Predictive: A predictive approach /waterfall or traditional approach is a linear plan driven form

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Agile: This approach works best for projects where the definition of the scope emerges as the

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Hybrid: This uses both predictive and agile approaches and its form varies with the needs of the

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Visionary

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Emerging

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Compliance

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Business goals

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Business alignment

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Combination of related and unrelated projects

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Supportive: A Supportive PMO provides the policies, methodologies, templates, and lessons

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Controlling: A controlling PMO provides support and guidance on how to manage projects,

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Directive: A directive PMO provides project managers for different projects, and is responsible

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Processes, Procedures and Policies

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Organisation Knowledge Repositories

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Activities

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WBSs

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Backlogs

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Benchmarks

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Reports

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Risks and risk response plans

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Estimates

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Retrospective findings

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Health care project managers

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Medical device project managers

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Public health managers

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Technical project managers

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Operational management roles

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Voluntary Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) project teams

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Internships are a good place to start in project management.

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Another path into project management is to use your skills in contract work. This could be to run

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Junior project manager

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Project administrator

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Project support specialist

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project/ programme assistant

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project/ programme coordinator

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Planning and Prioritisation

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Decisive Decision Making

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Time Management

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Use of Power

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Leadership

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Effective Communication

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Knowledge Sharing

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Reporting/Documentation

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Collaboration

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Innovation/Creativity

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Coordinating and Organising

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Attention to Detail

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Emotional Intelligence

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a word or expression that can be understood in two or more possible ways.

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uncertainty

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Keep calm: In uncertain times, handling ambiguity with grace and poise will help inspire the

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Express empathy: As a project manager, it is important to try to understand what your team is

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Communicate what you know clearly: Define the aspects of the project that are confirmed and

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Make decisions and stick to them: Try not to second-guess your decisions in front of your team

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Trust the expertise of your team: Increase clarity by having everyone on your team discuss

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