Project Management and Change Articles

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Andre Malowney writing at a desk, working through project management reference texts and printed process diagrams

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Articles on project delivery, governance, risk, predictive, Agile and hybrid practice, alongside a growing PMP® knowledge library for professionals preparing for the current exam.

Monte Carlo Analysis: What It Tells You and What It Doesn’t

A single finish date hides how much of the plan had to go right to produce it. Simulation puts a probability on the commitment, and a limit on how far you should trust it.

Decision Trees Without the Headache

A decision tree is taught as arithmetic and used as a conversation. Its real output is usually not the number at the end but the argument it forces about the numbers.

Threats and Opportunities: Risk Is Not Always Negative

Everyone can recite that risk includes opportunity. Almost no register contains one, because thresholds, reporting and ownership were all built for loss.

Customer-Centric PMOs: A Better Test of Relevance

A PMO can pass its own audit and still be quietly routed around. Asking what its customers actually get from it is a harder question, and a more useful one.

Closing a Project Properly Still Matters

Closure is where a project stops being a project and becomes somebody's responsibility to run. Most of what makes that work cannot be done retrospectively.

Executing in an Adaptive Project

Managers moving from predictive delivery into iterative work often say execution feels shapeless. It has plenty of shape, and most of it sits inside the cycle rather than the calendar.