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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!

Joined-Up Data Can...

There are lessons to be learnt by sharing relevant data between NHS organisations to help drive clinical efficiency and enable better decision-making, says Peter...

Project Management Career...

Arras People, the UK's programme and project management recruitment and careers specialist, have just launched new career focused workshops for project managers. The workshops...

Project Management Flashblog

Over 70 project management bloggers came together on Wednesday 25th September at 1am GMT for the first ever Project Management Flashblog. The #pmflashblog was...

Project Management Frameworks...

Project management framework provides an organisation with a structured approach to delivery of projects. As described in my last post "what is a project...

New Book Focuses...

Gower Publishing have launched their latest Handbook in the series - The Handbook of People in Project Management. With three years in the making,...

Choosing The Best...

When a small team within an organization is working on a project it is important to have a document storage solution which allow for...

Universal Credit a...

Recently the head of the government’s flagship welfare reform project known as Universal Credit has stated that it has been suffering from poor project...

Get your projects...

Forget January for New Year’s Resolutions. The return to work after the summer holidays is the best time to get your projects in shape,...

The PMBOK v5...

The long-awaited changes to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Fifth Edition are welcome, and much needed. LA HABRA, Aug 1,...

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