Okay, so you have decided that you are going to get this Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification. How hard can it be? Surely all that is involved is studying the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) and applying for the exam. Why do you need to ...

At this stage there are over a million Project Management Professionals (PMPs)® out there. However, there are still fewer than 4,000 Program Management Professionals (PgMPs)®. Having sat the PgMP® exam (and passed!) Velopi’s founder, Seamus Collins, can appreciate why this is the case. In terms of study, the PgMP® involves ...

Quality is most often associated with manufacturing. If you can make all your products defect-free then your warranty claims will be low and your profit margins higher. This sort of thinking stemmed from the Toyota Production System and introduced the world to Lean Manufacturing. But it is no good ...

If you are contemplating managing a project, you first need to know that project management is not a zero-time task. It takes effort and energy and time. All of this should be repaid in wastage avoided during the project, but you need to be sure you can commit the ...

Anyone who is a fan of (or has been dragged along to) romantic comedies will appreciate that, for women, the ultimate romantic hero is not one with the physique of Conan the Barbarian, the mind of Stephen Hawking and the soul of Seamus Heaney. No, the guy that gets ...