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June 5, 2025

What Is Project Initiation and How Do You Initiate a Project?

The Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) Guide identifies four processes involved in the overall project definition process: project initiation, scope planning, scope definition, and scope verification. This post will focus on the first...

March 25, 2025

The 5 Ws of Project Management

Just like journalism, successful project management answers five Ws: Who, what, when, why, and with what money. (As you can see, we have changed out “Where” for the much more important business question: budget.)...

February 20, 2025

How to Define a Project

Project definition is the process of documenting key parameters for a project. A good project definition document answers the following questions: Kinds of Project Definition Documents Different organizations use different names for their definition...

December 10, 2024

What Is the Critical Path and How Do you Calculate It?

One of the fundamental approaches to project scheduling is the Critical Path Method (CPM). In order to use the CPM, project managers need to understand what the critical path is and how to calculate...