Dear All Am now doing quite a few written practice exams. Literally pen onto paper. Lo and behold with no F7 there’s a few words that I’m not confident that I’m spelling correctly! Been a long time since I’ve done this. I passed English GCSE……….. over 25 years ago. What tolerances are shown in the […]
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Can Project Management Success Be Measured In Terms Of ROI?
Given the predominance of projects in almost all large organisations, their value to an organisation is understood and appreciated but can that value be accurately measured and defined? And more importantly can it be equated to a company’s return on investment (ROI)? Certainly most major organisation are investing more and more in professional training for […]
Gantt Chart Infographic
This infographic highlights the key ways a project manager can use a Gantt chart to keep projects on track. Infographic brought to you by Wrike
Explain What Is Meant By The Term Project Scope
Explain what is meant by the term Project Scope (10 Marks):- Project scope is all the products produced, and all of the work required to produce the products, the outcomes, and the benefits derived from the use of the products. With the aid of suitably labelled diagrams where appropriate explain four aspects of defining a […]
Explain What Is Meant By The Term Project Governance
Explain what is meant by the term Project Governance (10 Marks):- Project Governance is the framework by which an organisation’s projects are run. It contains the procedures, processes, responsibilities, policies and regulation that define the establishment, management and control of projects, so that projects operate in a pre-determined and controlled manner ensuring the Board of […]
Describe The Key Phases Of A Lifecycle – Activities And Outputs
Describe the main key phases of a life cycle and the activities and outputs of each The main key phases of a project life cycle are: The concept phase is the first phase of the project. The main purpose of this phase is to establish as to whether the project is going to be worthwhile. […]
Explain The Benefits Of A Project Management Office.
Feel I’m a sentence or two short on both of these questions on the PMO, is that a fair assumption? Relieve some of the administrative burden from the project manager. This can allow the project manager to concentrate on the tasks at hand than become entrenched in paperwork. For example writing up issue reports, collating […]
Describe 5 Key Activities That A Project Office May Undertake
Describe five key activities that a project office may undertake 1) Administrative support and guidance such as filing and management of documents. These include assisting with the change control procedure. Assisting with risk and issue paperwork. Supporting the project manager during absences. 2) Collection of reports and analysis of project information. Such as timesheets and […]
3 Types Of Organisation Structure – Strengths, Weaknesses
First attempt at a describe question. Am I allowed to show illustrations ie draw out the company map in this type of question? Or is that only for an explain question? A Functional organisation is composed of Functional Heads of various departments. Ie Head of Marketing, Head of Finance and Head of Design. There is […]
Attending Classroom Training Feb 1st.
Dear All Will be attending the APMP Classroom training in Reading on February 1st. Have PRINCE2 Practitioner so will be sitting the slightly cut down version of the exam. Have owned the excellent study guide by John Bolton and Paul Naybor since September last year. Lets just say I’ve done the manual to death now! […]
Feedback: Explain What Is Meant By The Term ‘Project Context’.
Project context is the environment in which the project operates, and the influences within the environment that will have an effect on the project. The environment and the influences need to be understood by the project manager in order to manage a successful project. The influences will depend on the type of project that will be […]
Explain Five Benefits Of Using A Programme Management Approach
1. Projects form part of a Programme because they are part of the vision set by senior managers of the organisation. Programme Management approach enables projects to be initiated, defined or accelerated in order to meet the requirements of the vision, or they may be terminated if they no longer form part of the vision. 2. Programme Management approach has […]
Improving Project Sustainability
Sustainability should be a major goal for every project manager. Here are some simple ways to help you improve your project sustainability. Companies that cannot adjust over time run the risk of failing to thrive. For this reason, sustainability should be a major goal for every project manager. Although different people will define sustainability in […]
A World In Which Every Project Is A Success?
“We know why projects fail, we know how to prevent their failure — so why do they still fail?” Martin Cobb, CIO, Treasury Board Secretariat, 1995. The reasons why projects fail are well understood they include[i] Poor project definition including announcing major funding decisions before the business case has been fully developed. Optimistic assessment […]
Easy Tips For New Project Managers
When you are new to being a project manager, there’s lots of advice out there. Our advice? Take it all in! Including these easy tips. There are many skills you need to be a successful PM, ranging from natural skills, attitudes and abilities, to management and control skills that can be learnt in project management […]
Why Trust Is Crucial In Project Management
Trust is an extremely important part of project management. In this discussion we look at why this is, and how it can be established and kept. We often hear a lot about trust and much of it seems to focus on the negative. We don’t trust politicians; we don’t trust bankers or we have […]
List And Describe Five Steps In Creating A Robust Schedule
Five steps in creating a robust schedule are: Producing WBS Estimating durations for executing work packages Preparing precedence diagram, and calculating floats Determining critical path Determining Project Milestones 1-Producing work break down structure is the first step in preparing robust schedule. WBS provides analysis to the activities (work packages) that will be carried out during […]
List And Describe Five Benefits Of Formal Risk Management
Five benefits of formal Risk Management are: 1) Defining ways to deal with risk 2) Consistency 3) Allowing for contingencies 4) Common reference for audit and assurance 5) Sponsoring organisations have clear perspective of risk have clear perspective of risk 1) Defining ways to deal with risk is one of the benefits of risk management. […]