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What are the popular approaches to project management?

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Projects can be brought to a successful end in various ways. But the best and most popular project management methodologies, methods, and frameworks are always changing.
New concepts appear all the time. An entire string of methods, tools, and techniques lies behind all successful projects.
A methodology or framework that worked for someone else might not be the right one for you. That’s why it’s best to test how you can use them for your own projects.
The most popular approaches and tools to project management methodologies and frameworks are: 1. Waterfall Methodology
2. Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM)
3. Agile Project Management
4. Kanban Methodology
5. Scrum Methodology
6. Lean Project Management
7. PRINCE2 Methodology
8. Atlassian Confluence
9. Atlassian JIRA

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What is the difference between a Project Manager and a Product Manager?

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Product managers have strategic responsibility for driving the development of products, whereas project managers are responsible for overseeing the execution of those development plans.
Product managers and project managers can and often do work closely together on the same initiatives, but in most cases, they have two different sets of responsibilities.
There can be some overlap in responsibilities between product manager and project manager. The extent to which they overlap is largely dependent on the specific organization. In the end, of course, professionals in both of these roles are working toward the same all-important outcome: a successful product.

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What Skills are Required for a Project Manager?

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Knowledge of project management is sometimes just not enough for you to become a great Project Manager.
Take a look at the skills of the most successful project managers and find out if you have what it takes to become like them and what you have to improve:
• solid understanding of business cases and risk management processes
• expert knowledge to meet specific circumstances
• proven project management and self-management skills
• strong leadership skills
• ability to monitor and control budgets
• critical thinking
• good communication and negotiation skills
• capability to make decisions under pressure
• strong interpersonal skills necessary to lead a team
• ability to define situations, document data, and draw conclusions
• strong organizational and multitasking skills
• accuracy and attention to detail
• excellent time management skill
• capacity to maintain schedules and meet deadlines

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What does being a project manager actually mean?

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Are you always the leader of your group who likes to keep everything and everyone organized and with a goal in mind?

If your answer is yes, you could be on your way to a career in project management.

A project manager (PM) is responsible for leading an entire project through initiation, planning, execution, control, and completion.

Some of your duties in your career as a project manager will include: taking part in the creation process, executing the project, preparing communication methods, finding solutions to recurring issues, monitoring the project’s progress from start to finish, ensure your team is actually getting things done, and many more. To put it briefly, you’ll be responsible for connecting each project to the business world and to its clients.

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How to become a Certified Project Manager?

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Once people make the switch in their careers from managing projects to being project managers, they recognize that in order to land the best jobs, they need professional certifications. For the mid-career and the most senior project management jobs, a project management certification is a given.
While there are several global organizations that offer project management certifications, the Project Management Institute (PMI) is the world’s premier professional organization for project managers.
In addition to several specialized project management certifications, PMI offers two generalist certifications, the Project Management Professional, or PMP®, and the Certified Associate in Project Management, or CAPM®.
The PMP® is the most common project management certification in the world. The CAPM® is a lower-level certification for newer project managers who will likely pursue a PMP® once they reach the PMP® qualifications.

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