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By University Alliance Successful  project management  requires a precise set of skills, knowledge, flexibility, and creative problem-solving. Seasoned project managers know that along with years of experience comes a greater understanding of the complex interrelationships between all parts of a project from set-up to completion. A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) provides a best-practice approach to tackling project management challenges across the industry at all professional levels. The integrative approach of five essential process groups, also referred to as the traditional approach to project management, yields positive results for project leaders who take the time to understand how the five different process groups overlap and support success throughout all phases of the project. Leading effective projects requires not only strong general leadership skills, but also a methodological and responsive set o...

by: Joseph On  Friday, August 29, 2014 Tags:   Air Drone Delivery     Google     Project Wing    In case you thought  Amazon  was alone in working on a system for automated high-speed air delivery,  Google recently unveiled Project Wing, their own entry into the field. Unlike Amazon’s automated delivery service, Google’s Project Wing was developed mostly with emergency supplies (like food, water, or medicine) in mind. In fact, the project originated as a way to get emergency defibrillators to heart attack sufferers on short notice, before this avenue was abandoned due to complications involving 9-1-1 and other public emergency services. Now, the sky is basically the limit on what Google plans to do with Project Wing, but whatever it is will have to go through a lengthy legal process given the current amount of regulation on United States skies currently on the books. But if any company could ever get around o...