Language of Project Management

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🔨 Terms that confuses me: RACI vs RAM

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Quote: Hard now, easy later.

"If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." ― CS Lewis

Easy now, hard later. Hard now, easy later.

Project Management is defined around certain terms.

All PMs speak a similar language due to the terms we know and use.

Here is my top 30 PM term list.

I hope nothing new to you :-)

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Terms that confuses me:

What we can learn from Best Practices?

Both RACI and RAM are tools used to ensure each project activities have responsible individual of the project team assigned for each activity.

RACI: RACI is a form of RAM (Responsibility Assignment Matrix) that defines project individuals / stakeholders as responsible, accountable, consult and inform statuses for different project activities.

• Responsible — those who actually carry out the work to achieve the task objectives.
• Accountable — the one individual who is ultimately accountable for the success of a task and will approve the work created by those Responsible. There is ONE and ONLY ONE Accountable for a specific task / deliverable.
• Consulted — those who would have opinions that need to be considered / take into account / weighted in for the task / deliverable and be kept updated of the progress
• Informed — those who would need to be updated on the task progress

“Best Practice”: in the project, a role may be performed by many individuals while a person can perform many roles. However, for each task / activity, it is advisable to have a person assigned to one role only.

RAM: it stands for Responsibility Assignment Matrix; it is a grid-like responsibility assignment chart that shows assignment of project resources to individual work package.

• RAM clarifies the roles and responsibilities of project resources
• RAMs can have different levels, the higher levels for programs / project phases while the lower levels for project activities
• RACI Matrix and Linear Responsibility Chart (LRC) are two popular examples.
• Project managers are advised to involve team members when creating the RAM / RACI Chart.

Genuine question

Take a second and answer me this question honestly:

Have you completed a Full mock exam yet? (180 questions in 230 minutes)

If so, and you scored 70% or above, finished in 200 minutes. You are in great shape :-)

But, if you dont you have to practice questions 80% of your time.

Why?

Since all questions are situational for the exam and we don't know the passing rate.

The secret sauce into this is to understand the PMI mindset.

Here is my explanation:

It’s my singular mission to help you pass PMP.

I teach my exclusive community the secret sauce to reach 80-90% passing and pass PMP.

Who's this community for?

Only if you are committed to pass PMP.

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Community

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It’s my singular mission to help you pass PMP.

I teach my exclusive community the secret sauce to reach 80-90% passing and pass PMP.

Who's this community for?

Only if you are committed to pass PMP.

Join the PMP OS Community, click here → Yes, let’s do this :-)

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