Construction and software development are two areas that have employed Project Managers for decades. However, many other areas employ them as well. NASA and Space-X both employ many PMs, but so do organizations as diverse as the Secret Service, IBM,

1. What do we know and what do we need to know? This is Data Gathering. 2. What could go wrong and what could go right? This is Risk Management. 3. What has already gone right or wrong? This is Problem-Solving and Seizing

Which Project Management Certification is Right for Me? by Christopher J. Bart, PMP Instructor for Intro to Project Management, and PMP Certification Exam Prep. Private Project Management Training & Consulting The Project Management Professional (PMP) certification from the Project Management

A project charter is a common and useful tool for communicating the goals, costs, and risks of a project, and it is the first step in project management. Many failed projects were doomed by a poorly understood or absent project

Professional Project managers divide projects into 5 steps. Initiating, Planning, Executing, Controlling, and Closing. These steps guide a project from conception to completion.Private Project Management Training & Consulting Initiating projects Projects begin (usually with a project charter) when the goal

Last month, our Project Management Instructor, Chris Bart published an article with cobizmag.com on Project Management for non-project managers. Ask trained Project Managers how they most effectively manage, and they will give you variations on the same theme: the tools

By Chris Bart Does it seem that you and your team keep getting blindsided by circumstances beyond your control, or outside the bounds of your department or Project? Consider this manager’s predicament: It all looked so promising. The Project had

Projects generally have more moving parts than tasks. Projects require a series of tasks and may have the complexity to justify project management techniques.Generally, the first two questions to ask with a project is, “What is the next action required?”