Relating Project Deliverables to Corporate Strategy

Anyone who has managed a top-secret project will appreciate the sense of frustration with developing a product, service or result without having any idea what the deliverable was ever used for. Even in more open environments, Project Managers often have only the vaguest idea of how their deliverables contribute to the bigger picture. On this […]

PMP Certification Ireland – The 2021 PMP Exam Breakdown

The 2021 PMP® Exam Breakdown Every four or five years the Project Management Institute releases a new edition of their flagship publication: The Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Around two years into the lifecycle of a PMBOK® Guide edition, the Institute also revises its Examination Content Outline (ECO). Normally, this is not a […]

The Need for Formal Project Management Certification

Anyone who is a practicing Project Manager will appreciate that this is an applied discipline. Sitting back in an Ivory Tower, thinking beautiful thoughts is not what it takes to succeed in this front-line position. However, in recent years, there seems to be an obsession with formal qualifications – not only in Project Management but […]

Baselines in Project Management

A question we are sometimes asked in our PMP® exam preparation classes is: What is a baseline? This is understandable because the word appears all over the place – there are project baselines, scope baselines, schedule baselines, budget baselines, and even a thing called a performance measurement baseline. The intuitive feeling is that the baseline is […]

PMP Certification Ireland – Get to Grips with the 2021 PMP® Exam Format

The 2021 PMP® Exam Format For many years, practicing project managers have been attending Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation courses in order to pass the 200 question / 4 hour Project Management Professional (PMP)®  exam.  However, since January 2021 and the advent of online examinations, the PMP® exam has taken on a slightly different format. The Number of Questions In the […]

Critical Path: Backward Pass

In our last article, we explained the forward pass step in the critical path method. We showed the official approach, where the project starts at day 1, and an approach that is simpler to calculate in a PMP© exam situation, where the project starts at day 0. In considering the backward pass, we will use […]

How to Prepare for the PMP® Exam Day | Velopi

The one thing that unites humanity – the single thing that we have in common – is that we are all unique. This makes giving advice difficult because what works for one person might not be effective for someone else. However, when it comes to the Project Management Professional (PMP®) exam, Roy Keane’s maxim – […]

Will you get PMP certified in 2021?

Will you get PMP certified in 2021? Whether you wish to pass the PMP or the CAPM exam, we have scheduled PMP Exam Preparation courses in January, February, March and April 2021.  PMP Exam Preparation Course Dates Due to Covid-19, all these courses are run as 5-day virtual classroom and some of them also benefit from skillnet […]

What is Earned Value Management?

On this page: If you are someone who has worked on projects, but are new to project management, you would be forgiven for thinking that project management is all about bringing a project home on schedule. In certain organizations, milestone dates are sacrosanct and the management team seems willing to do anything and everything to […]

Project Stakeholder Management

People tend to resist change and they definitely do not like surprises – in the workplace at least. Given that projects are the agents of change, Project Managers need to be aware of these human traits and ensure that the people who can affect or be affected by projects are aware of the outcomes of […]