What is Portfolio Management in Project Management?

Really enthusiastic Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam students will have studied the introductory chapters of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) in some depth. If they have, they will have come across the term “portfolio” and, while it is unlikely to appear in a PMP® exam question, it is a very interesting concept. […]

Upcoming Project Management Professional (PMP®) Courses

Upcoming Project Management Professional (PMP®) Courses Consult our Courses page for all upcoming courses. #3351 08/2011-08/2022

Project Management Professional (PMP)® Project Charter and Project Management courses in Ireland

You have just been assigned the position of project manager to a new project. What is the name of the document that formally authorizes the project? A. The project assignment B. The project charter C. The project description D. The statement of work As you probably guessed from the title of this blog, the answer […]

Case Studies in our Project Management Courses

If you have to explain anything, examples are great. A topic like Earned Value Management can cause many students’ eyes to glaze over but, as soon as an example is presented and they can see what the concepts are all about, we can almost literally see the lightbulbs go on around the room. On this […]

What Happens Next?

In rugby, progress is made down the field by the person with the ball going as far as possible before handing it over to someone else on the team, who will take it a bit further before handing it off to someone else until, hopefully, someone crosses the line and touches down for a try. […]

Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam Topic – Human Resources

HR (Human Resources) is considered to be one of the “easier” exam topics – however still requires attention before sitting your PMP® Exam as it is a frequently asked question in the exam. At our recent Dublin PMP® Exam Preparation Course, we discussed some of the following aspects of HR for the PMP® Exam. On this page: What are […]

What Project Management Course to Take?

A Project Manager is a front-line management position. In other words, it is unlikely that someone will come straight from school into this role. Usually, people show promise in their technical roles and are given project management responsibility. This can be a problem. On this page: Importance of Training and Credentials in Project Management Technical […]

Gantt Charts

For anyone taking a PMP© exam preparation course, the section on Project Schedule Management can be very confusing. Experienced project managers have invariably come across Microsoft Project and are used to presenting schedules in the form of a Gantt chart. Picture their surprise when their PMP© course instructor keeps talking about precedence diagramming methods and activity-on-node graphs, but never mentions […]

Being the new Project Manager on the Block

If you have taken a PMP® exam preparation class and gone through the whole PMP® experience, you will have a perception of a nice, orderly world where projects are carefully defined and you, as the Project Manager, will be part of the initiating and planning process, as well as steering it towards a (hopefully) successful conclusion. On […]

Getting PMP® Certification: Bridging the Gap

CAUTION – This article was written in 2014 and may no longer be accurate. According to John Lennon, “life is what happens while you are busy making other plans” and this sums up neatly the problems faced by practicing project managers when they attempt to earn the Project Management Professional (PMP)® accreditation. It is an obvious […]