The Meaning of Success

What is success? Or, to be more specific, what is success in a project management context? Suppose you are a Project Manager. When can you break out the Champagne and declare your project a success? Is it when your deliverables are transitioned to a maintenance operation or to manufacturing? Is it after the post-mortem meeting […]

The Project Manager’s Mindset

To be eligible to sit the Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam, you need to be an experienced Project Manager.  To ensure this, the Project Management Institute requires you to detail that experience in your application and randomly selects people for audit to ensure that this experience has been genuinely acquired. On this page: Challenges Faced […]

How to Use a Risk Breakdown Structure

While it is dangerous to generalize, I think it’s safe to suggest that most project managers are concerned about risk and would, at a minimum, like to be aware of all the potential banana-skins in their paths. On this page: Creating a Risk Breakdown Structure: Identifying Potential Risks However, creating a list of potential risks […]

Assessing your Project’s Benefits

Project Managers tend to think in terms of deliverables. The overall scope of the project involves carrying out tasks that result in a unique product, service or result. At the end of the day, the project will be deemed a success or failure based on what is delivered. The Project Manager may have come in […]

Project Resource Management

The Project Manager role is often the first exposure a person has to leading a team. For technical people, who are used to working mainly on their own, this can be a daunting development. However, building an effective team around you is a core aspect of managing any project. The Project Manager also needs to […]

Benefits of Project Management Training in Ireland

Ever thought about getting the Project Management Professional Certification? Ever wondered about the benefits of having a world  renowned and globally recognised certification? Below is a list of just 10 of the many benefits of going on a Project Management Professional Training Course and getting your PMP Certification in Ireland. For more information about any […]

Competitive Advantages of Project Management

Back in 1990, Michael Porter published a book called “The Competitive Advantage of Nations”. It explored how countries have become dominant in certain industries and have failed abjectly in others. For project managers, such macro-level considerations rarely have any effect on our day-to-day work; however, an understanding of competitiveness will help to make some decisions […]

Organizations and Project Managers | Velopi

Human beings are sociable animals. Even our Neanderthal ancestors gathered in caves and pooled their resources to hunt big game. It is a policy that has proved extremely successful and is in widespread use today. For most of us, our weekdays revolve around commuting to an organization and spending our time there collaborating with our […]

Tackling PMP®-style Exam Questions

The Project Management Professional (PMP)® credential is only available to experienced Project Managers and it provides practitioners with a recognized qualification that serves two purposes. In the first place, it gives the person who obtains the certification confidence that they are entitled to use the job-title “Project Manager” and secondly it provides a means of getting […]

Understanding the Major Project Management Processes

Shakespeare buffs will tell you that the devil can cite scripture for his purpose, but we here at Velopi can attest that project management cynics can cite the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) for their own purposes too. They point out that a project is a “temporary endeavour undertaken to create […]