Lessons on the Wrong Resource
Here is a lesson I learned when doing a project review. I guess I knew it all along but it was certainly brought home to me when I did the review. A large public corporation had just finished a project. It had been difficult to say the least. It was well over budget and time. [...]
Having been in project management for many years, there are lots of examples of how applying the right approach has proven successful. Here is one relating to risk management. In a major company wide project to implement a new system, we spent several weeks doing the planning. It was evident there were about six key [...]
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A lesson I learned many years ago from a very experienced project manager related to managing the changes in a project. The project was nearing completion but was over budget and over time. I was not managing the project. It was being managed by a colleague from the same company I was working with at [...]
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Here is another lesson I learned from a real life project. This one relates to managing issues. On one occasion I was called in to look at a struggling project. The project had about 100 staff but seemed to be going around in circles. Progress had slowed if not stopped. The first task was to [...]
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What is the problem the project is trying to solve? Think about your current project. Can you answer that question? Why is it even important? Every project is trying to solve a problem. The problem may be: We cannot cross a river There is an opportunity to claim a niche market Our software is no [...]
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Those looking to become the next generation of project managers will have over £7,000 allocated towards their training costs. The Skills Funding Agency (SFA) have confirmed that learners on the Higher Apprenticeship in Project Management scheme aged between 16 and 18 years old may be eligible for up to £7,217 of government funding. Apprentices over [...]
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Leadership in project management is ranked as the top competency for a project management professional today*. The challenge our industry now faces is just how project leadership can be defined, assessed and measured in a meaningful way. Today Arras People launched a pilot project with Goldsmiths College, London and Global Project Leaders Ltd to find [...]
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Arras People, the project management recruitment specialists released the latest annual report on the UK’s Programme and Project Management Professionals last month. The report polled 1232 permanent and contract Programme and Project Management Professionals during January 2012. The Project Management Benchmark Report (PMBR) 2012 shows how the UK’s economic turbulence is affecting project management practitioners’ [...]
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One of the many skills required of a project manager is the ability to ask searching questions and persevere until a clear answer is obtained. Many of the pitfalls in projects could be avoided if questions were articulated fully and if the answers were given clearly and in detail. Too often areas of a [...]
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We are a small but rapidly growing project management training provider, offering APM, PRINCE2 and PMP courses, based in Reading. To support our future growth we are seeking a self employed individual or organisation to provide in-bound sales support service to help us convert to sales lead generated by our website. We generate most of our [...]
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