General Project Management Tools
Description
Apart from the designated set of tools mostly used for communication, data analysis, decision making, etc, there are several other very important tools and techniques that a project manager should master. There are around 66 such tools and techniques available to be used.
Tools
Advertising
Agile release planning
Alternatives analysis
Analogous estimating
Audits
Bidder conferences
Bottom-up estimating
Change control tools
Claims administration
Colocation
Communication methods
Communication models
Communication requirements analysis
Communication skills
Communication technology
Context diagram
Contingent response strategies
Cost aggregation
Critical path method
Decomposition
Dependency determination and integration
Design for X
Expert judgment
Financing
Funding limit reconciliation
Ground rules
Historical information review
Individual and team assessments
Information management
Inspection
Knowledge management
Leads and lags
Meetings
Organizational theory
Parametric estimating
Pre-assignment
Precedence diagramming method
Problem solving
Product analysis
Project management information system
Project reporting
Prompt lists
Prototypes
Quality improvement methods
Recognition and rewards
Representations of uncertainty
Resource optimization
Risk categorization
Rolling wave planning
Schedule compression
Schedule network analysis
Source selection analysis
Strategies for opportunities
Strategies for overall project risk
Strategies for threats
Test and inspection planning
Testing/product evaluations
Three-point estimating
To-complete performance index (TCPI)
Training
Virtual teams
It is advised that you know the basics of all the tools including where they are used. I have made it as brief as it can be possible so that you can find it easier to refer to and memorize.
Related Posts:
- PMP Knowledge Areas
- Decision Making – PMP Tools
- Data Representation – PMP Tools
- Data Gathering – PMP Tools
- Data Analysis – PMP Tools
- Communication Skills – PMP Tools
- Interpersonal & Team Skills – PMP Tools
- COMPLETE LIST OF PMP TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
- ROLLING WAVE PLANNING – PMP Tools and Techniques
- PARAMETRIC ESTIMATING – PMP Tools and Techniques
- INFORMATION MANAGEMENT – PMP Tools and Techniques
- FUNDING LIMIT RECONCILIATION – PMP Tools and Techniques