Category Archives for PMBOK Guide & PMP

Work on PMBOK 7 is underway & information is seeping out. There’s only a handful of people who know the facts but some have published their thoughts.

The Project Management Institute (PMI) regularly updates the standards and how it assesses them. So we’re getting a major PMP exam change, in July 2020.

We often describe Project Management as a methodology-driven profession. And it’s true to a degree: there are a lot of Project Management methodologies.

The PMI’s will delay the changes to its PMP exam. So, it’s a good time for our PMP course comparison showdown between the two courses we recommend.

Project Integration Management is the glue that holds the parts of your project together. It’s a discipline common to all project management methodologies.

The role of the project manager is a big one, with lots of things you need to do. So, do you fully understand the scope of your role & its responsibilities?

In September 2017, the PMI published the Agile Practice Guide, in collaboration with Agile Alliance. Is the Guide part of core Project Management knowledge?

Project Implementation (aka project delivery or execution) is when things get going. After definition, scoping & planning, it’s time to make things happen.
Here’s where you implement your project, execute your plan, and deliver the benefits your sponsor commissioned. So, although I’d argue that this is the easy bit, you have to get it right.

How best to monitor and report on the performance of your projects and predict their future performance? Earned Value Management (EVM).

A project plan is at the heart of every successful project. At the heart of every project plan is project scheduling to set the timing of each activity. In this guide, we’ll look at all the key elements of project scheduling. We will largely follow the process structure in the 6th Edition of the PMI‘s […]