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 ...

Here at Velopi, we are often asked: why is project management training needed? There are many Project Managers out there who are managing just fine, steering projects to successful conclusions without ever studying the subject formally. This is true, but you will notice that such Project Managers become adept ...

The Project Management Institute, in its wisdom, decided to separate those processes related to stakeholder management from communications management in the fifth edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Besides giving PMP® exam students an extra knowledge area to worry about, what were ...

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 ...

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 ...