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A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge — Sixth Edition provides guidelines for managing individual projects and defines project management related concepts. It also describes the project management life cycle and its related processes, as well as the project life cycle. [9] and for the first time it includes an "Agile Practice ...
Project Management Professional (PMP) is an internationally recognized professional designation offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI). [1] As of 31 July 2020, there are 1,036,368 active PMP-certified individuals and 314 chartered chapters across 214 countries and territories worldwide.
In the 1960s project management as such began to be used in the US aerospace, construction, and defense industries. [7] The Project Management Institute was founded by Ned Engman (McDonnell Douglas Automation), James Snyder, Susan Gallagher (SmithKline & French Laboratories), Eric Jenett (Brown & Root), and J Gordon Davis (Georgia Institute of Technology) at the Georgia Institute of Technology ...
In project management, a critical path is the sequence of project network activities that adds up to the longest overall duration, regardless of whether that longest duration has float or not. This determines the shortest time possible to complete the project.
ISO 21500, Guidance on Project Management, is an international standard developed by the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO starting in 2007 and released in 2012.
A UK Government briefing document published in 2012 identified the Crossrail project, the Highways Agency and the Ministry of Defence as users of the PBA approach to payments. [2] Barclays Bank and the Bank of Scotland were identified as financial institutions supporting use of PBAs. [ 2 ]
Project Management Using Earned Value. Humphreys and Associates. ISBN 0-9708614-0-0; Philipson, Erik and Sven Antvik (2009). Earned Value Management – an introduction. Philipson Biz. ISBN 978-91-977394-5-0; Project Management Institute (2005). Practice Standard for Earned Value Management. Project Management Institute. ISBN 1-930699-42-5
Probability bounds analysis (PBA) is a collection of methods of uncertainty propagation for making qualitative and quantitative calculations in the face of uncertainties of various kinds. It is used to project partial information about random variables and other quantities through mathematical expressions.