Praveen Malik

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

Learn how to create a project charter, a crucial document that authorizes a project’s existence and outlines its objectives. Discover the key components, best practices, and the importance of obtaining stakeholder buy-in for successful project management.

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

Project governance is an oversight and controlling function that aligns an organizations strategy with the project lifecycle. It provides project managers with a framework for making decisions, defining roles, and ensuring project success. Learn about the key elements of project governance and how it differs from project management

Many project managers struggle to understand the concept of process groups and often confuse them with project phases. This article explores the differences between the two, explaining how process groups are repeated within each phase of a project and highlighting the importance of distinguishing between them

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 was designated as the project […]

I regularly provide project management advisory and Project Management Office (PMO) related consulting services to my clients. On many occasions, I have found that project managers do not distinguish between assumptions, constraints, […]

I have been conducting PMP training workshops for about 15 years. I usually start my training sessions by asking participants to introduce themselves and state their expectations of the training […]

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 gotten a big […]

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 century B.C., Aristotle wrote […]

A company’s organizational structure is the system that defines a hierarchy within the organization. It typically describes job functions and reporting relationships. It can also describe how activities are directed […]

I regularly conduct PMP training workshops. About one hour in, I discuss project stakeholders, and almost always the same question comes up: What is the difference between the project manager […]