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March 25, 2025

The 5 Ws of Project Management

Just like journalism, successful project management answers five Ws: Who, what, when, why, and with what money. (As you can see, we have changed out “Where” for the much more important business question: budget.)...

March 7, 2025

Do You Really Need a Project Charter?

A project charter is a project definition document that answers the question “How is the project going to get done?” A good project charter functions as a project management execution plan template. Every project...

February 20, 2025

How to Define a Project

Project definition is the process of documenting key parameters for a project. A good project definition document answers the following questions: Kinds of Project Definition Documents Different organizations use different names for their definition...

December 10, 2024

What Is the Critical Path and How Do you Calculate It?

One of the fundamental approaches to project scheduling is the Critical Path Method (CPM). In order to use the CPM, project managers need to understand what the critical path is and how to calculate...