Some projects can proceed using only the resources internally available to the organization. In other words, the necessary skills can be found among our employees and all the equipment and material is already in stock. If this is the case then external procurement is not an issue. On this ...

CAUTION – This article was written in 2016 and may no longer be accurate. Recently we had a visit from a very upset project manager. She had been managing projects in her company for years and the success of these projects contributed to the company’s decision to expand and ...

The Project Management Institute has changed its Examination Content Outline for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam. On the surface, this looks like a massive change – most of the tasks listed have been reworded and new ones have been added. According to the Institute, some 25% of the ...

The software industry is huge in Ireland. Indeed, the worldwide market for software products and solutions is creating a massive demand for software skills. The European Commission estimates that the industry in Europe will be short one million software developers by the end of the year. On this page: ...

In another article, we pointed out that the Process Groups you find in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) are not the same as project phases. Instead we need to consider them as collections of similar types of processes, rather than processes that need ...

Anyone who has visited a factory where quality is vital to business will probably have seen a poster featuring a lonely, long-distance runner over the caption: “In Quality, the Race is never Run”. This must be the most demotivating slogan ever conceived – why start a race if there ...