Many civilian Project Managers have made profitable use of the Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) to help develop their schedules. Anyone who has done a Project Management Professional (PMP)® exam preparation class will already have encountered something similar to PERT – the three-point estimate. On this page: Understanding PERT ...

International Project Management Day happens every year on the first Thursday in November. On learning of this, I was worried. As a conscientious PMP®, what was I supposed to do to celebrate this day? Are project managers entitled to a day off on International Project Management Day? Do we ...

On this page: A disturbing feature of many job adverts for Project Managers is the requirement to manage multiple projects. Is this just another symptom of the cost-cutting mantra- do more with less? Or is project management really just a part-time job? Having pondered on this for a while, ...

The Project Management Institute is very keen on change control. It insists that, once your scope is baselined, any change requests need to be analysed fully and the consequences of the change appreciated before any decision is made. On this page: Challenges in Implementing Effective Change Control For a ...

On this page: The Canadian economist, John Kenneth Galbraith is credited with coining the phrase “The Conventional Wisdom”. This means concepts that are assumed to be true because so many people believe them. In general, we spend most of our lives happily conforming to a set of conventions that ...

On this page: If you are reading this it is likely that you are a practicing Project Manager. It is also possible that you are a Project Management Professional (PMP)®, who became well versed in the Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide). No doubt, no matter ...