Anyone who has managed a top-secret project will appreciate the sense of frustration with developing a product, service or result without having any idea what the deliverable was ever used for. Even in more open environments, Project Managers often have only the vaguest idea of how their deliverables contribute ...

The 2021 PMP® Exam Breakdown Every four or five years the Project Management Institute releases a new edition of their flagship publication: The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Around two years into the lifecycle of a PMBOK® Guide edition, the Institute also revises its Examination Content Outline ...

Anyone who is a practicing Project Manager will appreciate that this is an applied discipline. Sitting back in an Ivory Tower, thinking beautiful thoughts is not what it takes to succeed in this front-line position. However, in recent years, there seems to be an obsession with formal qualifications – ...

A question we are sometimes asked in our PMP® exam preparation classes is: What is a baseline? This is understandable because the word appears all over the place – there are project baselines, scope baselines, schedule baselines, budget baselines, and even a thing called a performance measurement baseline. The ...

The 2021 PMP® Exam Format For many years, practicing project managers have been attending Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation courses in order to pass the 200 question / 4 hour Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam. However, since January 2021 and the advent of online examinations, the PMP® exam ...

In our last article, we explained the forward pass step in the critical path method. We showed the official approach, where the project starts at day 1, and an approach that is simpler to calculate in a PMP© exam situation, where the project starts at day 0. In considering ...