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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!

iPad up for...

Arras People's year long 10th birthday celebrations comes to an end this month. With an iPad on offer as this month's prize, project practitioners...

Paola Morgese is...

GPM®, the world’s leading provider of sustainability based project management methodologies, professional development, and accreditation announced today that Paola Morgese, is the recipient of...

Costain impressed by...

Costain’s group training and talent manager said he was significantly impressed with the impact <a href="http://www.apm.org.uk/APM PMQ" target="_self">APM PMQ has had on their business....

History of project...

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nrlwYRs5Ko&list=PLQzq_ylfBVzJCID3Fug-yzF4Mkibljz-J&index=1&feature=plcp Marking APM’s 40th anniversary the History of project management video celebrates four amazing decades of the profession. Narrated by APM president Dr Martin Barnes...

Tom Taylor announced...

The Association for Project Management (APM) has announced that vice-president and former chairman Tom Taylor is to become its new president. The announcement was initially...

Free Project Management...

Arras People, the project management recruitment business, has been celebrating 10 years of business throughout 2012 with ten prizes for ten months. With prizes...

Apprentices to benefit...

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...

Rosana Francescato, Program...

For Immediate Release: San Francisco-CA – GPM®, the world’s leading provider of sustainability based project management methodologies, professional development, and accreditation announced today that Rosana Francescato, Program...

How to stop...

This is a guest post by Nic Bryson, VP of Customer Success at Wrike, with some insights into the causes of procrastination. He offers...

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