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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!

Smart Meters: A...

Whenever a massive new project is unveiled, people who specialize in the various aspects that come into play in the project will offer their...

Parallel Project Training...

Parallel Project Training, founded in 2009 by John Bolton and Paul Naybour,adopts a personal approach to support organisations deliver complex project in an efficient...

What is Good...

In the workplace there are many occupations that one can undertake. Among the most satisfying, interesting and lucrative occupations is project management. The occupation...

APM Conference 2013:...

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB82fbR-qoY&list=PLQzq_ylfBVzLf702M93x0BXkkPi6Uce4d&index=14 Conference chair Professor Darren Dalcher (pictured right) opened the seventh annual APM Project Management Conference by setting the scene, describing 2012 as the year...

Last chance to...

There are only a few days left until the APM Project Management Conference on Thursday 13th June at Kings Place in London – so...

Project Managers Team...

From May 15th to June 8th when you purchase a copy of The Lazy Project Manager , The Lazy Winner (or both) by Peter...

Valuing Project Procedures

I am frequently asked to quantify the value of improving an organisation’s stakeholder management capabilities or how to establish the ROI for a new...

Managing your Sponsor...

The only purpose of undertaking a project or program is to have the deliverables it creates used by the organisation (or customer) to create...

Apprentices have better...

A new report from the Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) has concluded that Apprenticeships must be seen on an equal footing with university degrees. The...

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