Three Broad Contract Types | Velopi

Dedicated Project Management Professionals (PMPs©) will appreciate Project Procurement Management. They will understand the need to make build or buy decisions and will have learned about a whole range of different contract types in their PMP© courses. Following their PMP© training, they will base the build or buy decision on sound financial planning – is it cheaper […]

Quality Management Tools for Your Projects | Velopi

For Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® and Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam students, the Project Quality Management knowledge area is full of many and varied tools and techniques. In this article, we will describe only a handful of these, but this should give you a feel for what these tools are created to achieve. On this page: 1. […]

Project Documents

In previous articles, we have demonstrated to PMP® exam students that there is some logic and common sense to the inputs and outputs that relate the various project management processes. We have highlighted where enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, work performance data, information and reports, as well as change requests are used. However, the fifth […]

Taking the Project Team where It Wants to Go

While were putting together our new Program Management Professional (PgMP)® exam preparation course, we noticed that the Project Management Institute put a lot of emphasis on finding out what people are interested in and assigning them work that would like to do. Sadly, it is often the case that the program or project you are […]

Career Paths for Project Managers

As a project management training provider, Velopi is inclined to look at career development in project management in terms of professional project management certification. Seeing as we are recognized by the Project Management Institute as an Authorized Training Partner and by offering validated programmes leading to Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) awards, this is not surprising. […]

Project Quality Management

One of the areas that often lead to blank faces during our Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation courses is Project Quality Management. On this page: A Challenging Area for PMP Exam Preparation For people whose project leads to a product – a device or a novel potion – stringent quality control is a routine […]