Milestones are zero duration activities that mark the completion of a certain set of project activities. They are mostly used to report the project status to the senior management. Also, the completio...

Milestones are calculated based on the estimation technique like FunctionPoint Analysis.

When the project charter is created, the PM is named and the roles responsibilities of the PM are mentioned in it. Thereafter, the PM should take complete ownership of the project ...

Project Manager needs to be involved right from the Contract phase till Acceptance phase for a project development. In case of product development, he has to be involved right from requirements gather...

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PMP is a highly professional certificate. It requires 40 hours of mandatory PM training which exposes you to the PMBOK guide. The PMBOK guide is a reference book built on the collective intelligence o...

Risk management
Lifecycle costing
Real options
Organizational process assets
Non-technical project terminations 
Requirements formulation analysis

Choose an optimal solution for the following tasks assigned to you:1) Customer is expecting a lot from this project and have already communicated to you while awarding this project.2) Your employ...

It is difficult to rate by percentage or by ratio, PM should have knowledge at macro level in all technical aspects in his project

PM should have conceputal awareness.

The PM should act as a shock absorber and remain composed always and especially during pressured situations. Passing the business pressure onto the project execution team may have adverse effects...

With patience and calm.
With these two qualities, a project manager will be able to see the causes for the pressure clearly, and find effective ways to either remedy or deflect the pressure.

A big no is to transfer that pressure to the worker-bees - the team that is actually executing the tasks.

Project Management tools are normally used to assist in project Planning, Execution and Monitoring & Control activities.Most common tool for project management are: 1. Microsoft Enterprise Project ( ...

A tool is something we use to accomplish a task. The effectiveness of the task completion depends on the tool of choice. Using the right tool for the job requires understanding of the tools at our...