When you study Project Stakeholder Management for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, you will be faced with an array of Stakeholder Analysis techniques to prioritize your stakeholders. The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) lists Power / Interest, Power / Influence and Influence / ...

In many companies, projects are unheard of. These organizations revolve around operations and this work is often termed “execution”. When a time comes to institute a change – replace a manual process with a machine, for instance – the change is termed a strategic execution and put in place ...

A project is considered a failure when it has not delivered what was required. Therefore, in order to succeed, a project must deliver to schedule, to budget, to quality and it must deliver the benefits presented in the business case. From lessons learned, a major cause of failure occurs ...

Are you planning on getting your Project Management Professional (PMP)® accreditation this year? The Project Management Institute (PMI)® revised its exam format for 2021 and replaced its Registered Education Provider (REP)® program with a new initiative called the Authorized Training Partner (ATP)® scheme. This is more than a simple rebranding exercise. Instead of training providers, ...

For those of a certain age, the first time we heard the word “strategy” was during the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) that signalled the start of the end of the Cold War. Strategic referred to long-range. Younger readers will probably associate strategy with long-term business planning. But strategy ...

So you are a project manager and have been for quite some time now. But you have reached the stage when a certificate in project management would be welcome. Maybe you have been passed over for a promotion because you have no project management accreditation? Maybe your company is ...