What Project Managers Do

As part of Velopi’s Blended Learning Solution, we provide our students with assistance in making their application to sit the PMP® exam. An important part of the PMP® exam application is breaking your project management experienced down across the five process groups – initiating, planning, executing, monitoring / controlling and closing. Often, a student’s first attempt will […]

How to Deal with a Difficult Stakeholder | Velopi

One of Ireland’s former Ministers for Education, Ruiri Quinn, wanted to stamp out bullying in the classroom, in the schoolyard and online. He insisted that every school had to come up with an action plan to achieve this goal. But was he right? The problem with bullying is that it is not simply confined to our schooldays. […]

Introduction to Project Budget Management | Velopi

On this page: Money is a strange concept. For most of us, our main concern is not having enough of the stuff, but project management professionals (PMPs)® soon realize that money is very much a moveable feast. For instance, suppose we need a piece of equipment for our project and the cost of purchasing this is […]

How to Improve Project Risk Management | Velopi

A risk is an uncertainty and that uncertainty can mean a potential banana skin for the project, but also it could mean an extra benefit to the project. For instance, the price of oil is always uncertain. If it is on a downward trend that could have a positive effect on the project’s bottom line […]