What comes to mind when you hear the word “strategy”? For most of us (whether Project Managers or not) it suggests some sort of high-level, long-term plan. It also conjures up images of a “big picture” – some sort of over-arching vision for the organization in question. Terms like ...

We have written about risks before. We have suggested ways to identify risks and we have looked at Expected Monetary Value. However, identifying risks and prioritizing them is all very good, but what do you do when a risk materializes? In other words what risk response should you put ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...