PMP Governance, Value & Business Environment 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.

Closing Contracts Without Leaving Loose Ends

A contract ends when somebody says it has. Closing it properly means making sure nothing is still attached to it: data, access, licences, warranties and money.

Outcome-Based Contracts: Buying Results Rather Than Activity

Paying for effort guarantees you spend money. Paying for a result only works where the result can be measured, attributed and influenced by the supplier you are paying.

Procurement Strategy: Decide How You Will Buy Before You Go to Market

How the work is divided into contracts decides where the gaps will be. That decision is usually made for administrative reasons and lived with for years.

How Project Managers Provide Organisational Insight

Projects find out how an organisation actually works, because they are the things that run into it. Almost none of that ever reaches the people who could act on it.

Who Actually Provides Oversight on a Project?

Oversight is a function that has to happen, not a committee that has to exist. Plenty of projects have five forums watching them and nobody able to decide anything.

Why Organisational Knowledge Repositories Matter

Every organisation has one and most of them go unused, because the thing a project needs is a specific answer and what the repository offers is four thousand documents.