Taking the Project Team where It Wants to Go

While were putting together our new Program Management Professional (PgMP)® exam preparation course, we noticed that the Project Management Institute put a lot of emphasis on finding out what people are interested in and assigning them work that would like to do. Sadly, it is often the case that the program or project you are […]

Career Paths for Project Managers

As a project management training provider, Velopi is inclined to look at career development in project management in terms of professional project management certification. Seeing as we are recognized by the Project Management Institute as an Authorized Training Partner and by offering validated programmes leading to Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI) awards, this is not surprising. […]

Project Quality Management

One of the areas that often lead to blank faces during our Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation courses is Project Quality Management. On this page: A Challenging Area for PMP Exam Preparation For people whose project leads to a product – a device or a novel potion – stringent quality control is a routine […]

Project Scope Management

Are you interested in DIY? Many house owners discover a flair for this through necessity. It can be extremely rewarding to solve a problem around the home without calling in the experts. However, every DIY task is, in itself, a project and as such needs to have its scope defined. On this page: Defining Scope […]

What is Project Cost Management? | Velopi

In application domains, such as software development, many project managers do not have to manage a budget. Their teams are made up of full-time staff and there might be no material or equipment expenses incurred during the project. Essentially, the cost of the development is borne by the software department as a whole. On this […]

The Stages of Project Team Development

A very important topic you will need to know for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam is Team Development, specifically the five stages a team goes through as it develops. The stages a team generally goes through are: forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning. As a project manager, a good understanding of these stages will help […]

Reasons for Early Interest in Project Management | PMP Certification

Here at Velopi, our trainers are – how shall I put this? – of a mature vintage. We need to have people who have been out on the front lines of project management and have the scars to prove it. We believe that the only way to teach an applied discipline, like project management, is […]

The Salience Model for Project Managers

When you study Project Stakeholder Management for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, you will be faced with an array of Stakeholder Analysis techniques to prioritize your stakeholders. The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) lists Power / Interest, Power / Influence and Influence / Impact grids and explains how all three […]

Which Project Management Course to Take?

In many companies, projects are unheard of. These organizations revolve around operations and this work is often termed “execution”. When a time comes to institute a change – replace a manual process with a machine, for instance – the change is termed a strategic execution and put in place using whatever processes the organization has […]

10 Reasons Why Projects Fail

A project is considered a failure when it has not delivered what was required. Therefore, in order to succeed, a project must deliver to schedule, to budget, to quality and it must deliver the benefits presented in the business case. From lessons learned, a major cause of failure occurs when an organisation maintains the old project management […]