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Over the past few years, project managers and Project management has shown tremendous growth. Project management has evolved over the past several years from an activity in an organization to a discipline in its own right. Many professional bodies exist today to represent project management as a discipline, Some of which include, PMI, Prince2 Foundation, PM Bok.

A guide to the project management body of knowledge (PMBOK guide 5th edition).Newtown Square, Pa.: Project Management Institute, Inc., (2013)

Project Management Institute. (2000). _A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (4th ed.)._

More employers are looking at project management certification as important, and it is becoming more necessary for a project manager. Project Management Institute's (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) credential is the preferred certification that most employers are regarding as “highly desirable” for a new project manager. One reason employers are increasing weight on project management credentials is demand. More and more clients are requesting a project manager be certified in order to take on their project. “The marketplace in the U.S. is demanding the PMP or other project management certification," he says. "Going back five or six years, IBM has seen requests for proposals where the clients are demanding certified project managers

Project management institute is a non-profit world-wide organization. It outlines the industry standardization, education, membership, research and certification. They advances the careers, matures the project management profession, and expands the organizational success through standards, resources, academic research, professional development courses. They offer free downloads of tools, templates, e-learning courses and offer free training sometimes. It offers the services like standard development, publications, hosting conferences and finally offers accreditations in the Project management. To attain the PMI credential, the member need to document first about their education and experience as it’s a requirement. PMI’s advocacy for project management is by its services. These certifications provide the competency and knowledge with a PMP certification. The income and career opportunities for credential holders denote that employer identify the value delivered by practitioner. The Project management institute research program which is expensive but advances in the science, profession of project management.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge. Upper Darby, PA: Project Management Institute, 1996. Print.

Taking the Project Management Skills quiz provided a good insight of the necessary skills involved for project management. Strengths and weaknesses were identified. The results of the quiz identified my skill level was in the middle grouping indicating my management skills are average. Project management skills can include leading, planning, organizing, and communicating but unless a person is able to do these tasks well, management skills can suffer.

The first section of the paper has the student perform a wide ranging search on specific phrases relating to project management. This serves to show how massive the body of knowledge on the topic. Due to the various search engines algorithms the student will be guided towards the most popular or common sites. These sites are more likely to have a broad coverage of the subject and provide an accessible entry points.

When applying project management body of knowledge (PMBOK) when designing a contractual framework for a Division within the community college environment, several barriers exist when creating an effective and efficient specialized training contractual model. Through reflective reasoning and the review of former contracts, the Division identify and create a best practice system which will require gathering past and present-shared knowledge of those who have encountered the same challenges with contractual development and implementation. In addition, the research will derive from archived documents, that allows the merging of differing ideas and frameworks with current best practices. Providing a sound structure of a researched and effective quality system model, thus creating a working system for each constituency within the identified Division. The dissertation seek to show how the collaboration of different, more efficient models, will therefore create a cyclical method for contracting within the Division.

Square Enix Co., Ltd has been a striving company in the gaming industry especially in the financial year of 2014/15 bringing home a net income of 9.8 trillion yens (US$80 million) (Watanabe, 2015), one of the best results since 2008. However, according to CSRHub (2015), Square Enix has been rated in the bottom 2 percentile for Corporate Social Responsibility Rankings, fairing lower than competitors. This has raised an alarm amongst the stakeholders and executives as environmental and sustainability issues were left out in the 2015 annual report (SQUARE ENIX HOLDINGS CO., LTD., 2015).

The VP of marketing, Lori, selected Elliot Wood as the project manager for the Video Game Market Research Project. Elliot had previous project management and market research experience within the company, and he also was an avid video game enthusiast. He still had the Atari system he used to play in high school, and he enjoyed playing newer games with his two children. Elliot, however, was wary of doing business on the Internet and refused to make any of his own purchases online. He also did not let his grade school children use the Internet unless they were

Spiral Model – It combines prototyping and design in order to get advantages of bottom-up as well top-down notions. It is an advanced form of waterfall method. The four main phases include objective setting, risk assessment,

For his first assignment in Thailand, Nils was assigned to a restoration project of the resort where had been ravaged by catastrophic tsunami. His time estimation for project accomplishment reported back to headquarter and soon turned out as an unachievable target when he found out that there is not enough resources to accomplish the project. The reason of this was not only because some migrant workers had fled away to not being deported, but also many Thais declined even his double wages offer mainly due to some sort of beliefs that the region and the resort are haunted by ghosts.

The purposes of managing projects are obtaining specific goals with proper planing, organizing, motivating and controlling of resources. Various methods and studies are being used for achieving the best possible outcomes of projects. However, the status quo shows the drawbacks of current projects management. LPDS is the method known as a excellent means that functions on saving resources, and minimuns the costs of projects. ‘Lean production ’ is named by a MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) research group for making the system firstly generated by the Toyota Motor Corporation more easily to accept in implementing projects (Mahsa, 2013). In this article, the comparisons between LPDS and current project management

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