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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.

Change Management Plan vs Change Control

One governs what the project will deliver. The other governs whether anybody uses it. Sharing a word has cost a great many projects their business case.

Benefits Management Plan: Who Owns Value After Delivery?

The project finishes and the benefit has not arrived yet. Somebody has to be holding it on the day the team disperses, and that somebody is named months earlier or not at all.

Fixed-Price vs Cost-Reimbursable vs Time-and-Materials Contracts

Each type places the cost uncertainty somewhere. The question is not which is safest, but who is best placed to carry the thing that is actually uncertain.

Choosing a Supplier: Cheapest Is Not the Same as Best

A price well below the others is information rather than a bargain. The useful question is what the bidder has understood, or decided to leave out, that the others have not.

Make or Buy? How to Decide Before Procurement Begins

The comparison is rarely price against price. It is a known internal cost against a quoted external one, and the two have been prepared on completely different bases.

Project Management Meets Product Management

A project has an end date and a product does not. Most of the friction between the two jobs comes out of that single difference, and it is settled early or not at all.