Category: Project Management
Gold plating is a bad practice, though in some cases it may help to improve the customer relationships temporarily. Many projects face issues because of gold plating and impacts the project(s) negatively. Hence gold plating is certainly treated as a bad practice. This brings up the question: “what is gold plating in project management?” Project constraints …
Most of us are part of some or the other projects in our professional life. Some of us may not know the exact definition of a project. This brings up the question “what is a project in project management?”. What is a Project in Project Management? PMI defines the project as follows: The above project definition …
When you have too many factors competing for your attention, we often get confused to determine which factors to focus on priority. Pareto chart will help us to prioritize the most important factors to focus first. Which brings up the question. What is a Pareto Chart? Pareto chart or Pareto principle is invented by Vilfredo Pareto, …
Scope process lets you consider only those scope changes that your project and the stakeholders agree. Control scope process save you from situations such as scope creep and gold plating. So, you are not going to ask the project team to work on every change that occurs in the project. Even, if the ask is from …
Project Scope Statement includes all the project work that you and your team is going to do, to fulfill the project requirements and the stakeholder needs. Project Scope statement is the primary output of Define Scope process in the project scope management knowledge area of PMBOK. To understand what is included in a project scope statement, …
Plan scope management process tools and techniques transforms inputs to outputs. Plan Scope Management is the process, where you figure out how you perform the rest of the processes in the scope management knowledge area. All the knowledge areas in PMBOK follows the same structure. You first plan, how you wanted to perform the rest of …
Requirements Gathering is the process of exploring the requirements for a system from end users, customers, partners, and other stakeholders. Requirements Gathering is about discussing with each of the stakeholders to understand their needs and expectations on the product or service you are going to create. Understanding the stakeholder expectations will help you visualize what you …
Requirements Gathering Techniques involves interacting with the stakeholders to understand the project needs. That means you probe the stakeholders to tell you the issues that the project is expected to solve. At times, stakeholders do not know, what they want. So, requirements gathering techniques helps you to obtain all the requirements from relevant stakeholders. So you …
One of the top drivers of project success is proper scope management. Many projects suffer from scope creep during the project duration. This brings up the question: “what is scope creep in project management?”. Scope Creep Synonym: scope creep is also called as requirement creep or kitchen sink syndrome. We also often hear the words such …
Work Breakdown structure (WBS) divides the complex big tasks or project into manageable pieces of work. Work breakdown structure is even important not for the project team, but also for the customer to ensure and track the work packages closely till the project closure. That brings up the question: “What is a Work Breakdown Structure in …
