Category Archives for Project Management Basics

Welcome to our Beginner’s Guide to Project Management. There’s no shame in being a beginner: we all started at the beginning!

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

Do your projects over-run, go over budget, or fail to delight your clients? You can get rapid Project Management results, with my top ten PM tools.

Here’s our list of the top 12 project management jargon terms. The list is based on the most-viewed videos in our Project Management in Under 5 series.

There are many articles on the web about building an online business. But they don’t look at the project management aspects.

In last week’s article, we started to look at the reasons why projects fail. We set out the first five of ten Points of Project Failure. In this week’s article, we’ll look at the second set of causes. Five more reasons why projects fail. If you did not read last week’s article, I recommend you […]

No one wants their project to fail. Despite this, project failure is all too common. So is it Possible to Prevent Project Failure? It certainly is, and all you need to do is follow all the principles of good Project Management, including foreseeing and acting on all threats. ‘Easier said than done’ you say. Indeed. […]

When you have been Managing Projects for a while, you will start to notice that some things are always true. Each of these ‘Project Management Rules‘ reminds us of something important about Project Management, so I have been collecting them for nearly 20 years.

One thing ties together many important project management concepts… so, what is the Primary Project Hierarchy? So, what is the Primary Project Hierarchy? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of OnlinePMCourses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes.

Planning is fundamental to all Project Management, and one of the most basic and robust approaches to planning is Milestone Planning. So what is Milestone Planning? Dr Mike Clayton is founder of OnlinePMCourses.com. Here, he answers this question, in under 5 minutes.