Project management itself is nothing new. The modern framework began in the early 1950s, driven by businesses that realised the benefits of organising work around projects. More importantly, they ...

That's why setting SMART goals - Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Timely - is the first step in making your goal a reality. Make your goal as specific as possible and express it in ...

PMI is the world's leading professional association for a growing community of millions of project professionals and change-makers worldwide. Location: United States Established: 1969 Certifications: ...

Earned Value Management (EVM) helps project managers to measure project performance. It is a systematic project management process used to find variances in projects based on the comparison of worked ...

What qualities are most important for a project leader to be effective? Over the past few years, the people at ESI International, world leaders in project management training, have looked in to what ...

Called the "Scope Triangle" or the "Quality Triangle" this shows the trade-offs inherent in any project. The triangle illustrates the relationship between three primary forces in a project. Time is ...

In its simplest form, a Feasibility Study represents a definition of a problem or opportunity to be studied, an analysis of the current mode of operation, a definition of requirements, an evaluation ...

Risks your project or business is exposed to may be worth reviewing now more than ever to see which ones need more attention than others. Risk is a concept that denotes a potential negative impact to ...

In this article we are going to look at what many project managers and project management professionals refer to as the "foundation" of the project, or at least the foundation of project planning. The ...

What is the maximum number of projects a project manager can run concurrently before he or she becomes overloaded? In a recent edition of PM Network magazine, project managers are bemoaning the number ...

I remember when I was promoted from a humble engineer to the dizzy heights of project manager back in my twenties. The company I worked for successfully turned a reasonable engineer into a poor ...

On a regular basis we are constantly reminded that an overwhelming majority of projects are completed over budget, past the desired deadline and outside the original scope. Best practice project ...