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How to Prepare for the PMP Exam Day

PDU Offerings

Over the years, Velopi has helped hundreds of project managers achieve Project Management Professional (PMP)© accreditation.  However, we have been less good with our follow-up support. To maintain your PMP© credential, you need to amass a total of 60 Professional Development Units (PDUs) every three years. Until recently, Velopi ...

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How to Prepare for the PMP Exam Day

Mastering Project Management

On this page: Project management is becoming big business. According to the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Job Growth and Talent Gap Report 2017: “By 2027, employers will need nearly 88 million individuals in project management-oriented roles”. This sounds like good news until you see the Institute’s Pulse of ...

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How to Prepare for the PMP Exam Day

Project Management Certification: Professional Development Units

The great thing about getting a university degree is that you always have it. Another nice thing is that the grade you get becomes less important as you gain experience, so while scraping a bare pass might upset graduate recruiters, once you have experience built up, they do not ...

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How to Prepare for the PMP Exam Day

Blowing our own Trumpet

While we are very proud of our project management training courses here in Velopi, we tend to shy away from blatant marketing and are very squeamish about resorting to outrageous claims to sell our products. In fact, when we set about devising our corporate strategy, we decided that our ...

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How to Prepare for the PMP Exam Day

The Meaning of Success

What is success? Or, to be more specific, what is success in a project management context? Suppose you are a Project Manager. When can you break out the Champagne and declare your project a success? Is it when your deliverables are transitioned to a maintenance operation or to manufacturing? ...

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How to Prepare for the PMP Exam Day

The Project Manager’s Mindset

To be eligible to sit the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, you need to be an experienced Project Manager.  To ensure this, the Project Management Institute requires you to detail that experience in your application and randomly selects people for audit to ensure that this experience has been genuinely ...

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