Project Management

Business Analysis

Business analysis is a research discipline of identifying business needs and determining solutions to business problems. 

Change Management

Change management (sometimes abbreviated as CM) is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change. 

Customer Development

A business methodology. Used to improve the understanding of customer problems and obtain all necessary information to turn customer problems into potential solutions. Includes 4 stages: customer discovery, customer validation, customer creation, customer building.

Confluence

Team collaboration software, developed by Atlassian. Software development teams use this kind of content management systems to assemble ideas, discuss the work, exchange documents, plans, wikis, team workspaces, workflows, etc. It integrates well with Jira.

CSM

Certified Scrum Master (CSM) is an entry-level credential designed to give professionals getting started as Scrum practitioners an understanding of the project management methodology.

CSPO

The Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) credential from the Scrum Alliance® will validate your expertise in Scrum, an agile framework that enables collaborative cross-functional teams to deliver projects in incremental portions. 

Disaster Recovery

A set of policies and procedures which ensures the protection of organization from any significant effects in case of a negative event, which may include cyber attacks or hardware failure like servers or routers.

Financial analysis

Financial analysis is the process of evaluating businesses, projects, budgets, and other finance-related transactions to determine their performance and suitability.

Jira

A project management tool. It allows to plan and track different types of work, like an issue/bug, discussion, project task, etc., through a predefined workflow. It has all features to aid agile project development, including scrum and kanban boards, and roadmaps planning.

Lean Six Sigma

Lean Six Sigma is a management approach to business performance improvement that has blended the two individual specialisms of Lean and Six Sigma. There are different levels of Lean Six Sigma certifications which are divided into belt colors, similar to judo. The highest level of certification is a black belt.

PMO

A project management office (abbreviated to PMO) is a group or department within a business, government agency, or enterprise that defines and maintains standards for project management within the organization.

PMI-ACP

ACP is an acronym of Agile Certified Practitioner. This certification is provided by Project Management Institute PMI and hence it is PMI-ACP. ACP Certification carries a high level of professional integrity as it is a combination of agile training working on Agile projects and examining Agile fundamentals and tools. 

PMP

Project Management Professional (PMP) is an internationally recognized professional designation offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI).

Release Management

Release management is the process of managing, planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments; including testing and deploying software releases.

Requirements Gathering

Requirements Gathering is the process of generating a list of requirements (functional, system, technical, etc.) from the various stakeholders (customers, users, vendors, IT staff, etc.) that will be used as the basis for the formal Requirements Definition.

Product Development

A process of creating a new product or modification of an existing product. Refers to all of the stages involved in bringing a product from concept or idea, through market release and beyond.  

Product marketing

Product marketing is the process of bringing a product to market and overseeing its overall success. Product marketers are focused on understanding and marketing to customers. They drive demand and usage of the product, which often includes writing positioning and messaging.

Project Management

Project Management is the process of managing IT or IT-related projects. Technical project managers are critical to the conception, development and execution of the projects. 

Project planning

A part of project management that determines how to complete a project within a certain time frame. Usually it has defined stages and designated resources. It uses schedules to carry out the plan and subsequently report progress.

Roadmapping

Roadmapping is the strategic process of determining the actions, steps and resources needed to take an initiative from vision to reality.

SAFe

The Scaled Agile Framework (abbreviated as SAFe) is a set of organization and workflow patterns intended to guide enterprises in scaling lean and agile practices.

SAP

A software company, one of the largest vendors of ERP and other enterprise apps. It helps other companies run business processes in an integrated environment. The processes include accounting, sales, production, HR, payment, etc.

SDLC

Stands for Systems Development Life Cycle. It is a series of phases, that provide a model for the development and lifecycle management of an application. SDLC implements a process for planning, creating, testing, and deploying an IT system.

SFDC

An abbreviation for Salesforce.com. A cloud computing company that focuses on CRM products. The company also designs applications for social networking. SFDC products are usually used by sales teams and customer support.

Six Sigma

Six Sigma is a disciplined, statistical-based, data-driven approach and continuous improvement methodology for eliminating defects in a product, process or service.