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 ...

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 ...

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 ...