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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.

Requirements Elicitation: Why Asking What People Want Is Not Enough

Somebody who has done a job for eleven years has compiled most of it into habit, and habit is not available for description. Elicitation is getting at the quiet parts.

How Scope Works in Adaptive Projects

If the requirements can change, what is anybody agreeing to? Something is always fixed on an adaptive project, and naming it is most of the scope work.

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.