The Project Management Institute’s Project Management Professional (PMP)® accreditation is a professional qualification and the big difference between this and an academic degree is the need to maintain it. This is because the Project Management Institute realizes that what you study for in the PMP® exam will not remain the ...

Velopi will be holding two informative webinars for Limerick Chamber. Part 1 – What is Project Management?                Thursday 15th April 2021 12 – 1 pm This one-hour webinar will answer the following questions: REGISTER WITH LIMERICK CHAMBER Part 2 – What is PMI® Certification?    ...

The New PMP® Exam and the Approved Training Partner (ATP) Programme The Project Management Institute has changed the makeup of the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam radically. The good news is that the new exam is still based on the sixth edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). ...

If you have customers who are not sure what they want, or you are dealing with unproven technologies, it makes little sense to follow the sort of project planning methodology that is laid down in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Why go to ...

What comes to mind when you hear the word “strategy”? For most of us (whether Project Managers or not) it suggests some sort of high-level, long-term plan. It also conjures up images of a “big picture” – some sort of over-arching vision for the organization in question. Terms like ...

We have written about risks before. We have suggested ways to identify risks and we have looked at Expected Monetary Value. However, identifying risks and prioritizing them is all very good, but what do you do when a risk materializes? In other words what risk response should you put ...