In project management, you will often hear about corrective, preventive, and defect repair. Because the project life cycle is full of changes, requests, and variances, there will always be them. It doesn’t matter how well you did during the development of project management plans process, it’s normal to have them. You need to be able […]

The ITIL Lifecycle for services includes a key stage called continuous service improvement. This is covered in ITIL certification exam questions. This stage includes all the other stages, including Service Strategy, Service Design and Service Transition, as well as Service Operation. There will always be something that can improve in each of these stages. Continuous […]

Your goal when managing a project is to achieve the desired results within the budget and timeframe you have agreed. As a project manager, it is essential to be aware of the progress of your project. This knowledge can be acquired through a PMP course. This will require you to monitor and control the project […]

Mehmet Metin Ayranci recently passed his PMP exam. He studied for only 2 hours per day for 8 weeks. Metin completed Master of Project Academy’s online PMP preparation course. Metin shared his PMP preparation with us, and he also shared some helpful PMP passing tips. Before we continue with his PMP passing tips, let’s take […]

There are ten knowledge areas that relate to project management in the project lifecycle. PMP Scope Management and Project Integration Management are the first two knowledge areas. According to the PMP project management training PMP scope management defines the scope of the project. This knowledge area covers 6 processes. This article will briefly describe these […]

Are you a project leader? I tried not to indoctrinate him. It was true. Wacipi Jeff Kubina via Flickr This week, we attended a Wacipi, a Native American celebration. These events are held every once in a while in our region and are attended by the Lakota, Nakota and Dakota tribal nations. It’s great fun […]

Wiki solutions for project management Ephraim Schwartz, a contributor to InfoWorld, wrote today about the pros and cons of using wikis for project management. Knowledge management can be difficult, especially when it comes to projects. It is helpful to have many options for possible system changes. Wiki implementations have been too dependent on trusting humans […]

It’s a good idea to take a deep breath and reflect on how fortunate you are every now and again. How much potential you have. How amazing people are. For me, now is one of those times. My Project Teams are Awesome! Two teams of highly skilled, creative, and all-around amazing people work with me. […]

Chaos Report (1994) ? Only 16.2% of projects were successful in all measures. Over 52 percent of the 70% projects that failed were partial failures, while 31% were complete failures. OASIG survey (1995) ? Based on the most optimistic interviews, the quoted IT project success rate is between 20-30%. Chaos Report (1995) ? Standish Group […]

Complexity in project estimation can be important. Yet, many project managers seem to ignore this fact from what I have seen. I’ve been reading up on relative methods to get estimates for projects. Planning Poker has been a great way to get people working together, to think about the whole project and how their work […]