Project Management and Change Articles

Why Telling the Team What to Do Is Often the Wrong PMP Answer

Answering a team's question is not a failure of leadership, but it does spend information you have not collected yet. Here is how to tell which situations need a decision from you and which need a better question.

What Should the Project Manager Do First? A PMP Decision Guide

In most PMP scenarios all four options are things a competent project manager does at some point. The difficulty is sequence, not quality, and there is a reliable way to work out which action has to come first.

Why Hybrid Projects Use Agile and Traditional Artefacts Together

A hybrid project can run a product backlog, a risk register and a milestone plan at the same time without any of them being redundant. The difficulty is rarely that both sets of artefacts exist. It is what happens in the gap between them.

Do You Still Need to Memorise EVM Formulas for PMP?

Earned value carries more formulas than any other corner of PMP preparation, and far fewer are load-bearing than candidates assume. Here is the small core worth holding in memory, and the judgement the numbers will never supply.

How to Read a Burn-up Chart in a PMP Scenario

The rising line on a burn-up chart is the part everyone looks at and the part that tells you least. This is what the second line is actually reporting, and the order to read the chart in before you act on it.

Scope Creep vs Legitimate Change

Every request that turns into scope creep arrived looking reasonable. The difference between creep and legitimate change is not the request itself, it is whether anyone with the authority to decide actually decided anything.

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