Project Management Guide

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## Contents

Introduction

 * What is this book?

 * Who is this for?

 * Why am I creating this?

 * Are there more guides?

Project management

* Project management life cycle (PMLC)

* Project portfolio management (PPM)

* Portfolio optimization

* Project versus program

* Outputs versus outcomes (OVO)

Inception

* Liftoff

* Agile chartering

* Project charter

Ideation

* North Star

* Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG)

* Vision, mission, values

* Voice of the Customer (VoC)

* Subject matter expert (SME)

* Mind map

* Decision tree

Creative thinking techniques

* Futurespective

* Brainstorming

* Thinking hats

* SCAMPER

* Oblique strategies

* Mind map

* Flowchart

* Mental model

* The map is not the territory

Intent plan

* Objectives and Key Results (OKRs)

* Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

* Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)

* Critical Success Factors (CSFs)

* Critical To Quality (CTQ)

* Goals, Ideas, Steps, Tasks (GIST)

* Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions (RAID)

* SPADE decision framework

* Decision tree

* Decision record

* SMART criteria

Statement Of Work (SOW)

* Scope

* Scope creep

* Out-of-scope

* Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

* Functional specifications

* Functional specifications - steps

* Software development life cycle (SDLC)

* MoSCoW method

* Gantt chart

* Quad chart

Project estimation

* Planning poker estimation

* T-shirt size task estimation

* Fibonacci task estimation

Resource leveling

* Critical chain project management

* Critical path project management

* Constraint satisfaction

* Roll-on Roll-off (RoRo)

Project management methodologies

* Lean manufacturing

* Lean software development methodology

* Agile software development methodology

* Kanban

* Scrum

* Prince2

Change management

* Six Sigma methodology

* DMAIC methodology

* Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA)

* OODA loop

* OODA loop v DMAIC cycle v PDCA spiral

* Kaizen (continuous improvement)

* ADKAR change management model

* EBFAS organizational climate

Design Development

* Big design up front (BDUF)

* Domain-Driven Design (DDD)

* Behavior-Driven Development (BDD)

* Test-Driven Development (TDD)

Modeling diagrams

* Activity diagram

* Sequence diagram

* Use case diagram

* Object diagram

* Class diagram

* Package diagram

* Component diagram

* Deployment diagram

* State diagram

* Timing diagram

* Entity-relationship diagram (ERD)

* Cause-and-effect diagram

* Fishbone diagram: see cause-and-effect diagram

* Ishikawa diagram: see cause-and-effect diagram

* Unified Modeling Language (UML)

* PlantUML

* Mermaid.js

Teams

Teamwork

* Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing (FSNP)

* Icebreaker questions

* Pizza team

* Squad team

* Community of Practice (CoP)

* The Spotify Model

* Ways Of Working (WOW)

* TEAM FOCUS

* Pair programming

Roles and responsibilities

* Organizational chart

* Chain of command

* Stakeholders

* Responsibility assignment matrix (RAM)

* RACI matrix

* PARIS matrix

Outsourcing

* Offshoring

* Nearshoring

Meetings

* Meeting types

* All-hands meeting

* Standup meeting

* One-on-one meeting

* Skip-level meeting

Larger Projects

Digital transformation

* Business information systems

* Line-of-business (LOB) application

* Front-office applications

* Back-office applications

Change management

* Business continuity

* Operational resilience

* Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)

* Playbook

* Runbook

Quality control

* Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)

* After-Action Report (AAR)

* Blameless retrospective

* Issue tracker

* Cynefin framework

* Five Whys analysis

* Non-functional requirements: see system quality attributes

* Root cause analysis (RCA)

* System Quality Attributes (SQAs)

* Quality of Service (QoS) for networks

* Good Enough For Now (GEFN)

* Technical debt

* Refactoring

* See also: cause and effect diagram

Statistical analysis

* Descriptive statistics

* Inferential statistics

* Correlation

* Causation

* Probability

* Variance

* Trend analysis

* Anomaly detection

* Quantitative fallacy

* Regression to the mean

* Bayes' theorem

* Chi-square analysis

* Monte Carlo methods

* Statistical analysis techniques

Artificial intelligence (AI)

* AI for project management

* AI for product development

* AI resource leveling

Enterprise companies

* Enterprise Portfolio Project Management (EPPM)

* Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

* Enterprise Change Management (ECM)

* Enterprise Architecture (EA)

* Enterprise software

Scientific management

* Theory X and Theory Y

* Theory Z

* Command and control (C2)

* Value Alignment framework

Lore

Books about project management

* The Project Management Book Of Knowledge (PMBOK)

* Project Management for the Unofficial Project Manager by Kory Kogon et al.

* Making Things Happen by Scott Berkun

Project management quotations

* Culture eats strategy for breakfast

* Execution eats strategy for lunch

* Move fast and break things

* Ideas are easy, implementation is hard

* Learn early, learn often

* Make mistakes faster

* Perfect is the enemy of good

* Data beats emotions

* See things in the present, even if they are in the future

Aphorisms

* Brooks' Law

* Conway's Law

* The Law of Conservation of Complexity (Tesler's Law)

* The Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule)

* Chesterton's fence

* For more aphorisms see our Business Lingo Guide

Idioms

* Ahead of the pack

* Get on the front foot

* Think outside of the box

* Unknown unknowns

* Win-win

* For more idioms see our Business Lingo Guide

Soft skills

* How to give a demo

* How to lead a meeting

* How to work with stakeholders

* How to get feedback

* How to give feedback

Conclusion

* About the editor

* About the AI

* About the ebook

## All our guides

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* [Startup Business Guide](https://github.com/sixarm/startup-business-guide)

* [Business Lingo Guide](https://github.com/sixarm/business-lingo-guide)

* [Project Management Guide](https://github.com/sixarm/project-management-guide)

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