One of the difficult things for Project Managers and students attending PMP® exam preparation courses to understand is Earned Value Management. While the mathematics involved is pretty basic, getting a conceptual understanding is hard. This is because we seem to be using one measure – Earned Value – to ...

On this page: The Question of Including Meetings in Project Schedules One of our students posed a question recently: should meetings be included in your project schedule? Our first thoughts were no, there is enough in the schedule already. But then we said: hang on, maybe there are some ...

Since its inception, Velopi has been working with practicing Project Managers in order to help them achieve Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. Helping our students in their studies of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) has been very satisfying for us, particularly when we ...

Anyone who has studied for the Project Management Professional (PMP)© exam will be aware that communication is vital in project management and we all need to be good at it because we can spend up to 90% of our time communicating. On this page: The Importance of Planning Communication ...

Many organizations seem obsessed with gathering metrics and, for the front-line staff, these often make no sense at all. Even at the Project Manager-level, it is often difficult to appreciate why certain things have to be measured. How many times have you presented project status to your stakeholders, only ...

Back in 1988, Tom Gilb wrote a witty book entitled “Principles of Software Engineering Management”. Reading through the long list of principles provides much food for thought for the practicing project manager, the PMP® exam student and those who have no interest in software engineering whatsoever. On this page: ...