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How to fail well...

Failure Is the new success. Here are five ways that you can embrace...

5 Skills Needed To...

Why do projects fail? It's a question that invites a lot of interest and...

Embrace the change: Getting...

New IT systems for a growing business can be an exciting prospect and...

Does a Project Manager...

What makes a successful project manager is a combination of their academic abilities,...
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How to use RAG Status...

Many projects and programmes use RAG status...

Using Covey’s Matrix to tame...

Good time management is something that often...

New Broom, Sweeps Lean! Four ROI, Efficiency and Productivity Hacks for The New IT Project Decision Maker

It IS tempting to make a grand, headline grabbing move to justify your organisation’s faith in you, investing in a new portfolio software application or churning your talent, for instance. When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Often though, hindsight shows that making small tweaks could have been more productive. Rather than shake things up, it can be quicker, and less stressful to shape things up! If you’re new to a role, instead of slashing or splashing budget and drastically altering project team structure, how about looking at the small step changes you can make that can quickly unlock ROI. Less broom, more polish!

A sustainable economic...

Project managers have a critical role in the delivery of sustainable growth, that is to say, productivity led growth, rather than growth based on...

Are your stakeholders...

The short answer to this is question is ‘Yes’; and to make matters worse, your opinion of your stakeholders, your team and yourself are...

Creating value from...

There is a steadily increasing focus within organisations on managing change and maximising the opportunities change is supposed to generate through realised benefits and...

High Earners in...

In the latest Project Management Salary Guide from Arras People, the independent annual report of the project management industry, of over 2000 practitioners polled,...

The PMO Role...

Agile. Everyone is talking about it. In one corner it is the holy grail of project delivery, in the other skepticism. As the project management...

Fairs Fair

Particularly when you have to deliver bad news to a person, the processes you use are at least as important as the decision you...

PMO Conference in...

11th June in Central London sees the first ever PMO focused conference. The PMO conference has been curated specifically for people working within the...

Project Managers Work...

In the latest Project Management Benchmark Report from Arras People, the independent annual report of the project management industry, of over 2000 practitioners polled,...

Project Challenge Returns...

Project Challenge returns to Birmingham this Spring, or should that be zooms back to Birmingham as it is being held at the National Motorcycle...

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