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50 Project Management Terms You Should Know

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To deliver a project successfully, it is important to start the project with proper identification and pre-defined goal. For this, it is required to know and understand the project management terms. This article is the project management terms cheat sheet for those who are not familiar with the project management. Here, we have covered all the project management terms that you should know. So, give a good start to your project management career by reading these important project management terms.

Important Concepts of Project Time Management

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“I am definitely going to take a course on time management… just as soon as I can work it into my schedule.” – Louis E. Boone

Aspirants of PMP exam must cement their understanding of some of the key terms and concepts, before working on individual processes covered in each knowledge area. By doing so, they will be able to reduce the time required to understand the processes and prepare well for the exam.

In this article, we will make an attempt to understand some of the key terms and concepts in Project Time Management knowledge area.

Conflict Management, Problem Solving and Decision Making

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Conflict management, problem solving and decision making are topics that are generally considered to be distinct, but are actually interconnected such that they are used together to come up with the most feasible solution.

To come to the best possible outcome of a problem on the basis of sufficient information, certain problem solving steps need to be used. Some of these are as follows:

A Day in the Life of a Project Manager

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We don’t know whether every project manager can recall the exact moment they decided on their future profession. It may have been that they met a PM who passionately spoke about their work or maybe they saw a movie about some Wall Street shark (imagining their life would be just as exciting as it is on screen).

Should Software Professionals Get PMP Certified?

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The Project Management Professional certification, or the PMP certification, is probably not the first certification that comes to mind to advance or start a career in software engineering. Many engineers are constantly learning new languages and technologies in a very dynamic field, so certification in project management is not on many radars. However, project management is growing in other fields than in tech, and project managers are in high demand.