5 Ws improves project management efficiency. Project management methodologies are a great way to remind us of the basics of keeping a new project on track. Enabling you to focus on the fundamentals of the project while helping keep your real project goals insight.
Clarifying what you're really trying to accomplish.
Improving project management efficiency using the concept of 5 Ws to explain "what is the PROJECT” and really understand your objectives.
The 5 Ws (and 1 H) or 5W1H helps establish the fundamentals of your project. Makes you ask questions and gather basic information and set out goals and objectives before embarking on your new project.
Also allows you to problem solve, identify root cause of a problem, or clarify a goal definition. Properly defining the project makes the goal clearer and easier to follow.
What is a project management methodology? A guide on how to organise your projects. With key steps, methods and processes on how best to plan, and develop the project to achieve the best possible results desired.
Project Management Methodologies gives you a guiding process to manage a project. Identify all the stages you need to take into account in the process of managing a project.
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Project management is defined by a single one-off project which has a determined fixed time frame and one predefined goal. But flexible and ever-changing as you don’t come across the same challenges daily and need to adapt along the way.
Whereas Business process management is about the processes used in day to day business life. The guidebook to the best-predefined ways tasks should be executed to get the best results.
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PMBOK stands for Project Management Body of Knowledge
The PMI Project management Institute developed the PMBOK or Project Management Body of Knowledge a process-based methodology for managing projects.
A guide for people working in project programs, project management or portfolio management.
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Gantt charts give a graphical view of a timeline that helps planning, scheduling, coordination, and tracking specific tasks in project management.
Giving you a clear illustration of how the project will run. Giving an overview of individual tasks, their time scale and the sequence these tasks will flow. Help assess how long a project should take, along with the resources needed to complete the tasks.
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