Execution

Manage project execution 

• • Project Management Information Systems (PMIS)

  • Meetings (Daily coordination meetings)

  • Work performance data

  • Issue log

  • Change requests

  • Project management plan updates

  • Schedule updates 

  • Lessons learned register

  • Organizational process assets updates 

Manage quality assurance

• • Difference between quality assurance and quality control

  • Audits 

  • Checklists 

  • Affinity diagrams

  • Cause and effect diagrams

  • Flow charts 

  • Decision making

  • Problem solving

  • Process improvement 

  • Quality reports 

Manage project knowledge 

• • Explicit knowledge - Can be easily captured 

  • Tacit knowledge - In the mind and is highly personal 

  • Knowledge management

  • Information management

  • After action reviews

  • In-progress postmortems

  • Retrospective meetings 

  • Active listening

  • Facilitation

  • Leadership

  • Networking

  • Political awareness 

  • Lessons learned register

Manage stakeholder engagement

• • Communication skills

  • Feedback

  • Interpersonal and team skills

    • Conflict management

    • Cultural awareness

    • Negotiation

    • Observation / Conversation

    • Political awareness

    • Ground rules

    • Meetings 

  • Stakeholder engagement metrics 

Manage communications

• • Communication technology

  • Communication methods (Push, Pull)

  • Communication competence (90% of the project manager's time goes into communication)

  • Feedback

  • Nonverbal communication

  • Presentations

  • Project management information systems (PMIS)

  • Project reporting

  • Active listening

  • Conflict management

    • Confronting the issue, not the people 

  • Cultural awareness 

  • Meeting management

  • Networking

  • Political awareness 

  • Communications management plan updates

  • Stakeholder engagement plan updates

  • Issue log updates

  • Lessons learned register updates

  • Project schedule updates

  • Risk register updates

  • Stakeholder register updates

  • Organizational process assets updates 

  • Agile ceremonies (product)

    • Product reviews

    • Planning sessions

    • Project retrospectives

  • Large Language Models (LLM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Acquire resources

• Resource calendars 

• Resource requirements

• Multi criteria decision analysis 

• Negotiation

• Problem solving

• Pre-assignment

• Virtual teams 

• Physical or virtual resource assignments 

• Project team assignments 

• Resource calendar updates

• Change requests 

• Resource breakdown structure 

• Organizational process assets updates 

Lead the team

• Management activities

  • Effective process 

  • Planning

  • Coordinating

  • Measuring

  • Monitoring 

• Leadership activities

  • Focus on people 

  • Influencing

  • Motivating

  • Listening

  • Enabling

  • Situational leadership 

• Co-location

• Virtual teams

• Communication technology

• Conflict management

• Influencing

• Motivation

• Negotiation

• Team Building

• Decision making

• Critical thinking

• Coaching and mentoring

• Training

• Six thinking hats 

• Retrospectives

• Recognition and rewards 

• Individual and team assessments 

• SWOT analysis 

• Emotional intelligence 

• Organizational cultural intelligence 

• Distributed management and leadership

• Centralised management and leadership

• Servant leadership

• Tuckman ladder 

• Project Management Information System (PMIS)

• Virtual collaboration tools 

• Team performance assessments 

• Project team assignments 

Implement risk responses 

• Risk burn down charts 

• Lessons learned register

• Risk register