Project Work Breakdown Structure

On this page: It comes as something of a surprise to learn that the Project Scope Management technique of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) originated in the U.S. Department of Defence – the strategy embodied in the WBS being that of the British “divide and rule”. Most projects are just too large for any individual […]

Using a Work Breakdown Structure to Help Estimates

If you are just starting out in your career and you are in an area where the bulk of your work will be project-based, then we would like to offer you a very useful piece of advice: keep a note on what tasks you are performing and how long it is taking you to do […]

Time Management

On this page: During one of our recent Project Management Professional (PMP)® Exam preparation courses we were asked a few questions about Time Management, so we thought it may be useful to post the answers to these questions on our blog. Time Management is a commonly asked question in the PMP® Exam. In order to achieve the […]

Finding Dependencies

While practicing Project Managers often curse the constraints they are put under, the sad fact is that, without constraints, we would have no need for Project Managers. Even if you are not a Project Manager, you will have had to manage projects in your own life. Weddings, holidays, even job hunts all involve planning the […]

Organizational Process Assets in Project Management | Velopi

Having devoted our last article to Enterprise Environment Factors, it would be remiss of us not to say something about Organizational Process Assets. These appear even more frequently than the Enterprise Environmental Factors in the project management processes – 47 times as process inputs and 10 times as outputs. According to the Guide to the Project Management Body […]

Understanding Project Recovery | Velopi

Here at Velopi, we are often asked: why is project management training needed? There are many Project Managers out there who are managing just fine, steering projects to successful conclusions without ever studying the subject formally. This is true, but you will notice that such Project Managers become adept at managing a particular type of […]

Managing Stakeholders and Communication

The Project Management Institute, in its wisdom, decided to separate those processes related to stakeholder management from communications management in the fifth edition of the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). Besides giving PMP® exam students an extra knowledge area to worry about, what were the benefits of such a change? […]

Three Broad Contract Types | Velopi

On this page: Understanding the Importance of Trust in Supplier Relationships Dedicated Project Management Professionals (PMPs©) will appreciate Project Procurement Management. They will understand the need to make build or buy decisions and will have learned about a whole range of different contract types in their PMP© courses. Following their PMP© training, they will base the build […]

Quality Management Tools for Your Projects | Velopi

For Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)® and Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam students, the Project Quality Management knowledge area is full of many and varied tools and techniques. In this article, we will describe only a handful of these, but this should give you a feel for what these tools are created to achieve. On this page: 1. […]

Project Documents

In previous articles, we have demonstrated to PMP® exam students that there is some logic and common sense to the inputs and outputs that relate the various project management processes. We have highlighted where enterprise environmental factors, organizational process assets, work performance data, information and reports, as well as change requests are used. However, the fifth […]