The 2021 PMP® Exam Format Up until January 2021, if you wanted to obtain Project Management Professional (PMP)® accreditation, you went looking for a PMP® exam preparation course run by one of the Project Management Institute’s Registered Education Providers (REPs). All Change: Providers Have Become Partners Today, you will need to find ...

Here in Velopi, we have been wondering why people who go to the trouble of taking a PMP® course do not achieve their goal at the end. We are particularly concerned about those people who never actually attempt the exam. Why is this?We did some root cause analysis and ...

On this page: In this era of cost cutting and tight regulation, many a Project Management Professional (PMP)® must yearn for the good old days, when flagship projects were commissioned by absolute monarchs, who had unlimited resources to throw at their ventures. If you are preparing for your PMP® exam, you ...

The first management course I was sent on involved watching a war film and playing with Lego bricks. The film, starring Gregory Peck, was put forward as an example of excellent people management. Recently I saw a rerun of another Second World War movie, David Lean’s Bridge on the ...

Planning can be a very frustrating task for a Project Manager. We are often asked to provide detailed estimates based on a set of activities that are not clearly defined. The Project Management Institute recommends a technique called Rolling Wave Planning which seems to apply in these situations. According ...

Not so long ago, project managers working in Irish small or medium-sized enterprises worked with teams that were exclusively Irish. In other words, the people you dealt with all shared the same culture. When doing their PMP® training, those project managers found the Manage Project Team process easy – ...