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 ...

For many, project management is all about scheduling and for some, scheduling centres around Microsoft Project and Gantt charts. But Project Management Professionals (PMPs)® realise that there is a lot of work to do before a Gantt chart can be considered. Thanks to their PMP® exam training, professional project ...

Cocaine, according to Ben Dunne Jr, is God’s way of telling you that you have too much money. While gigantic, trans-national corporations do not develop appetites for narcotics, their multi-billion dollar war chests clearly indicate that they too have too much money. It is ironic that, by exploiting globalization ...

Anyone who is preparing to take the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam will be aware that there are a handful of formulae to be learned. Most of these relate to earned value management and estimating. However there is one that stands alone and, as such, is often forgotten. I’m referring ...