If you work in a very small organization, it is likely that everyone in the place will know about your project – most likely, every employee will have some contribution to make to it. However, as the organization grows, your project becomes less visible and that can be a ...

The Project Management Institute’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) is precisely that – a guide. It lists tools and techniques that are recommended as best practices for project management, but they are not explained in any great detail. For instance, the PMBOK® Guide recommends that we identify stakeholders ...

For a farmer, it is a male sheep. For a “Good’Ol Boy” from Texas, it is a Dodge pickup. But to a Project Management Professional (PMP)®, a RAM is a Responsibility Assignment Matrix. This is a great tool to help with Project Resource Management, because it identifies everyone involved in an ...

The controversial motoring journalist, Jeremy Clarkson, is very fond of playing a game he calls “Fuel Light Bingo”. He likes to drive with his fuel tank as close to empty as possible. Clearly, Mr Clarkson cannot be described as risk averse. For most of us, carrying around a full-ish ...

As a project manager, you will often be called upon to make decisions. How you make them really shows the difference between the amateur and the Project Management Professional (PMP)®. In your early days, you probably relied on gut instinct or made choices based on nothing more than Option-1 ...

One of the difficulties students have in our PMP® courses is relating their experience to the terminology used by the Project Management Institute. Experienced project managers will have encountered most of the concepts detailed in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide), but they are unlikely ...