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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!

Balancing The IT...

"To achieve success in all the projects that my Project Management Office is handling I need either an extra twenty staff or an extra...

Does One Size...

It is gratifying to note just how far project management has developed as a management discipline in its own right over recent years. I...

At last a...

How do we really know what we are good at, what we need to improve and most importantly to many of us, what do...

Autumn Project Challenge...

Project Challenge returns to London on the 6th and 7th October 2015 at London Olympia. The first seminars for the show have just been...

Roehampton master’s qualification...

The Association of Project Management has just given its formal backing to the University of Roehampton’s MSc in Project Management, after confirming the qualification...

Project management tips...

The financial sector is complex, fast-moving, and the stakes are high. For anyone operating in this world, a good project manager is vital. When...

Leading your team...

All businesses will go through some form of crisis at least once in their lifetime. How the business comes through this is very much...

Property development: becoming...

Managing the development of a property can be a complicated process. If you have prior experience, it is understandable that you may want to...

Project Management Hints...

The life of a project manager isn’t as easy as teammates would believe. A lot is needed to succeed as a project manager. Professional...

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