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Head First PMP 54

The document discusses the differences between projects and operations, and provides examples of tasks that would be considered projects versus operations. It also discusses what project managers focus on to improve their skills, including knowledge, performance, personal skills, and understanding their organization's enterprise environmental factors. Project managers aim to get better at managing projects, people, and adapting to their company's risk tolerance, standards and market environment.

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Head First PMP 54

The document discusses the differences between projects and operations, and provides examples of tasks that would be considered projects versus operations. It also discusses what project managers focus on to improve their skills, including knowledge, performance, personal skills, and understanding their organization's enterprise environmental factors. Project managers aim to get better at managing projects, people, and adapting to their company's risk tolerance, standards and market environment.

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what project managers do

Which of these scenarios are operations, and which are projects?

1. Building an extension on a house

7. Knitting a scarf Project

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2. Shelving books at the library Operation Project

8. Making a birdhouse Operation Project

3. Baking a wedding cake Operation Project

9. Changing your air filters every six months Operation Project

4. Stapling programs for a play Operation Project

10. Running an assembly line in a toy factory Operation Project

5. Watering your plants twice a week Operation Project

11. Organizing a large conference Operation Project

6. Walking the dog every day Operation Project

12. Going to the gym three times a week Operation Project

Answers on page 18.

Knowledge, performance, and personal skills are the three areas that project managers focus on to get better at their jobs. When youre talking about things like the people in your organization, the market you compete in, your companys risk tolerance, and standards that your company needs to meet (like government-imposed standards for any contractor bidding on a government project), youre talking about Enterprise Environmental Factors.

A program is a collection of projects that should be managed together in order to achieve a specific goal or benefit to the company. A portfolio is a collection of projects or programs. A project gathers a team together to do work thats temporary, creates a unique result, and is progressively elaborated. An operation (or process) is work thats done in a way thats repeatable and ongoing, but is not a project.

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