Is Domain Knowledge Needed for Project Managers?

Project management is supposed to be a transferable skill. The principles and practices laid down in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) should work in any application domain. So, anyone experienced in project management – especially someone with the Project Management Professional (PMP)® accreditation – should be able to apply […]

Coping with Bureaucracy as a Project Manager

While preparing for the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, the only knowledge of organisations you require is knowing the difference between functional, matrix and projectised organisations. After that, your PMP® course will concern itself entirely with project-related material. So, unwary project managers can find themselves facing a bureaucracy and not knowing how to cope with it. […]

Introduction to Program Management

We are okay with projects – those temporary endeavours producing unique products, services or results. Once we have identified our deliverables, set the budget and devised a schedule (as well as planning all the other aspects of the project), we Project Management Professionals (PMPs)® are well placed to guide any project to success. On this […]

Quality Metrics in Projects | Velopi

Many organizations and indeed many individuals make changes without ever giving thought to whether the change will improve matters or not. We seem to rely on gut instinct to determine if our investment in change is worth it or not. Being in charge of change agents – namely projects – Project Managers need to be […]

Project Management Communications: Breaking Bad News

In September 2014, J. Leroy Ward was extremely critical of the way Microsoft broke the news of impending layoffs to its employees. This set me thinking: As Project Managers, we frequently have to be the bearers of bad news, so what is the best way to break this news? Telling an employee, particularly a project team […]

Using Value Curves in Strategy Management

We have become fascinated with strategy ever since we were introduced to it while developing our Program Management Essentials and Program Management Professional (PgMP)© Exam Preparation courses. In fact, we felt that there was so much more to the subject than what is required for PgMP© accreditation that we took all the tools and techniques we had encountered in our research […]

Portfolio Management Processes

Portfolio management sounds like a good idea. Anyone who has set up a company or has served on a board of directors has had to manage the work the organization does, decide what new projects to embark on and juggle resources between all initiatives. This overall management of the enterprise is often frighteningly haphazard. The […]

How to deal with a difficult person on your project team

Every project manager must work with different types of people – and that often involves difficult personalities. As human beings, we all have good and bad behaviours. When we feel appreciated by others, good behaviour tends to dominate. However, in times of stress and conflict, bad behaviour can dominate. Studies by Zachary Wong (PhD and […]

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Testimonials: What they are saying about Velopi?

Seamus and our team at Velopi love getting feedback as it helps us to improve our consultancy services, our training courses, and our website! We receive feedback and evaluation through a variety of mediums some of which include post-course evaluation sheets, recommendations on LinkedIn, testimonials on our website, and comments on our Facebook, and tweets […]