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Praveen Malik

Praveen Malik, PMP, has two-plus decades of experience as a project management instructor and consultant. He regularly conducts project management workshops in India and abroad and shares his project management thinking in his blog, PM by PM.

Articles by Praveen Malik(10 posts)

What is a Contract and How is it Different from a Project Charter?
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What is a Contract and How is it Different from a Project Charter?

Learn about the differences between contracts and project charters, key elements of each document, why they are essential for project success.

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August 8, 2023
Back to Basics: How to Create a Project Charter
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Back to Basics: How to Create a Project Charter

Learn how to create a project charter, a crucial document that authorizes a project’s existence and outlines its objectives. Discover the key

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August 1, 2023
Back to Basics: What is The Difference Between Product Manager vs Project Manager?
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Back to Basics: What is The Difference Between Product Manager vs Project Manager?

What is the difference between product manager and project manager? Even though they overlap with each other, they are completely different.

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January 3, 2023
Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?
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Back to Basics: What is Project Governance?

Project governance is an oversight and controlling function that aligns an organizations strategy with the project lifecycle. It provides project m

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December 6, 2022
Back to Basics: What is the Difference between Process Groups and Phases?
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Back to Basics: What is the Difference between Process Groups and Phases?

Many project managers struggle to understand the concept of process groups and often confuse them with project phases. This article explores the di

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November 8, 2022
Back to Basics: Who Are Project Stakeholders and Why Are They Important?
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Back to Basics: Who Are Project Stakeholders and Why Are They Important?

About two decades ago, I was working for an IT Services organization. Our company got a re-engineering project from a Fortune 500 company, and I wa

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October 18, 2022
Back to Basics: Assumptions vs. Constraints vs. Dependencies
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Back to Basics: Assumptions vs. Constraints vs. Dependencies

I regularly provide project management advisory and Project Management Office (PMO) related consulting services to my clients. On many oc

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October 4, 2022
Why is Project Management Important?
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Why is Project Management Important?

I have been conducting PMP training workshops for about 15 years. I usually start my training sessions by asking participants to introduce themselv

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August 30, 2022
Back to Basics: Why do Projects Fail?
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Back to Basics: Why do Projects Fail?

I was working for an IT services company in early 2000. The much-dreaded Y2K problem had just passed without giving us too much trouble, and we had

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August 23, 2022
Back to Basics: How to Start a Project?
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Back to Basics: How to Start a Project?

Aristotle was a great philosopher, but it’s my belief that if he had lived today, he would have become a great project manager. Living in 4th centu

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August 15, 2022