Have you ever bought a new car? Or bought a new house? Have you had to return to the dealer several times before the car was as specified? Or chased up a builder over a snag list? If you have, you will appreciate how the whole experience can be ...

It comes as something of a surprise to learn that the Project Scope Management technique of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) originated in the U.S. Department of Defence – the strategy embodied in the WBS being that of the British “divide and rule”. Most projects are just too large ...

If you are just starting out in your career and you are in an area where the bulk of your work will be project-based, then we would like to offer you a very useful piece of advice: keep a note on what tasks you are performing and how long ...

On this page: During one of our recent Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam preparation courses we were asked a few questions about Time Management, so we thought it may be useful to post the answers to these questions on our blog. Time Management is a commonly asked question in ...

While practicing Project Managers often curse the constraints they are put under, the sad fact is that, without constraints, we would have no need for Project Managers. Even if you are not a Project Manager, you will have had to manage projects in your own life. Weddings, holidays, even ...

Having devoted our last article to Enterprise Environment Factors, it would be remiss of us not to say something about Organizational Process Assets. These appear even more frequently than the Enterprise Environmental Factors in the project management processes – 47 times as process inputs and 10 times as outputs. According to the ...