Introduction

All of us manage personal projects, and some of us have to manage professional projects. At the professional level, projects we have to manage can apply to the public or the private sector. Indeed, it can be a military project, a public sector project, an international development project, a humanitarian project, an agriculture project, an industrial project, a service project, a software project, or something else.

Whatever the project is, it follows the same processes.

At the international level, there are three major certifications for project management.

There is the PMP, which the American system uses; the PRINCE2, which the UK system uses; and the Scrum method, which is highly recommended for software projects.

PMP is short ...

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