Anyone who listens to the news will be familiar with government ministers ordering enquiries into events in their departments “so that this will not happen again”. There is never a goal of finding out who caused the problem and holding them accountable. The result of this sort of analysis ...

On this page: Companies that find themselves chartering large projects on a regular basis often consider establishing a Project Management Office (PMO) in order to improve the management of these projects. Unfortunately, a PMO is not a clearly defined concept and even Project Management Professionals (PMPs)® struggle to provide ...

Probably the first thing you learn on any Project Management Professional (PMP)© exam preparation course is that all projects have some unique aspect to them. Often that unique aspect relates to the performing organization itself, or the team members involved. So a project manager might move from one company ...

In a previous article, we offered advice to newcomers to project work: record how long it takes you to do typical project tasks. Here, we will show how that idea relates to the estimating techniques given in the Project Management Institute’s Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide) ...

When all is said and done, more is said than done. Many meetings can be summed up like this. They can be extremely tedious and quite unproductive. Many managers simply do not appreciate the cost of meetings and, because of this, do not strive to ensure they get a ...

As any PMP© will tell you (and any PMP© exam student should tell you) decision-making is needed in several project management processes. It will be a very good PMP© who will be able to recite which processes these are, because there are fifteen in total. On this page: The Role of the ...