Communication Channel : This is the total number of potential communication channels between the Stakeholders. Example : As a Project Manager, you had 7 Stakeholders to communicate with. Hence, you have 28 communication channels. Two new Stakeholders has been added with whom you
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You can check this certification in the PMI Online Credential Registry Last Name MARTINS First Name Philippe Country France Credential PMP
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Key words : Project Selection Methods, Business documents, Benefits Management Plan, Present Value (PV), Net Present Value (NPV), Benefit Measurement Method, Economic Models, Murder board, Pear Review, Scoring Models, Discounted Cash Flow technique, Payback Period Benefit Measurement Methods It helps to make
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Key words : Cost, Earned Value Management, Actual Cost, AC, Planned Value, PV, Earned Value, EV, Budget At Completion, BAC, Cost Variance, CV, Schedule Variance, SV, Cost Performance Index, CPI, Schedule Performance Index, SPI, Estimate At Completion, EAC, Estimate To Complete, ETC,
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Key words : Schedule, Beta Standard of Deviation, Range of Estimate of Activity Duration (EAD), Range of Estimate of Activity Cost (EAC) Beta Standard of Deviation (SD) Beta Standard of Deviation (SD) is measure of how dispersed a group of values are
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Key words : Knowledge Transfert, Learning Curve, Student Syndrome, Parkinson’s Law, Triangular distribution, BETA distribution, PERT estimate Some considerations : Number of resources : Increasing the number of resources to TWICE the original number of resources DOES NOT ALWAYS reduce the time
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Key word : SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, TORNADO, QUANTITATIVE Sensitivity Analysis : This is a technique and the goal is to determine which are the risks that impact the most the project. What is a Tornado diagram : This is a special bar chart
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Key words of Communication Model : SENDER, ENCODE, MEDIUM, NOISE, DECODE, RECEIVER, FEEDBACK, ACKNOWLEDGE Medium : How the message travels (ex. email server, …). Noise : A little joke in the message and you can’t tell if I’m joking or not (
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Types of Communication: PUSH, PULL, INTERACTIVE Push communication : This is information is sent to a group of individuals or Stakeholders via emails, memos, letters, reports, faxes, voice mails, blogs, press releases. This ensures that the information is distributed BUT does not
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Key Concepts of Communication : How to avoid the misunderstanding in the written communication ? Apply the rules of the 5 C’s (see picture attached)
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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” – Cyril Northcote Parkinson – A brilliant satirical essay published on November 19, 1955 in The Economist magazine begins with this quote that is so often seriously called law. A
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Thursday 12/09/2019, I participated in a presentation of PMI France Nord concerning a new Coaching & Mentoring program. This meeting was organized by Laurent DAVID and animated by Joanne TITTLEY. I am very interested to participate in this Mentoring program because it
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Phase exits, Phase gates, Decision gates, Stage gates, and Kill points represents the same meaning. It is the point in time during the execution phase of the project where the stakeholders or the sponsor review the progress and decide on whether to
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I attended a conference moderated by Béatrice Fornari and Christophe Hebben [ Tuesday 18 June 2019, 20:00 – 22:30 hours. Address : HI Lille Youth Hostel Stéphane Hessel – 235 Boulevard Paul Painlevé – 59000 Lille – France ] During this conference,
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“Project Management for the Real World”, by Joseph PHILLIPS Because there is a big difference between theory and practice and because I am looking to boost my project management career , I followed this training given by Joseph PHILLIPS “Real World Project
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A Tight Matrix is used to describe a Project Team that is c o l l o c a t e d. Communication is easier because people can physically move to the coworker’s office or meet for a less formal discussion near
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I passed the Project Management Professional certification on November 28, 2018. That’s exactly 1 month today ! It’s time for me to formalize the lessons learned of this personal project. Here is the link to this prestigious PMP-PMI® certification. Why becoming a
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