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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!

National Audit Office...

APM are pleased to announce that Tim Banfield, director at the National Audit Office (NAO), will be returning to the speaker line-up at the...

GPM’s PRiSM™ Practitioner...

Fort Wayne, US – GPM®, the world’s leading provider of sustainability based project management methodologies, professional development, and certification announced today that their PRiSM...

Shard project director...

Project director of the Shard, Western Europe’s tallest building, will be speaking at the APM Project Management Conference on 13th June in London. Turner and...

Rolls-Royce see benefit...

Rolls-Royce has reviewed their pipeline of talent into project management roles and realises the benefits of having a dedicated Apprenticeship scheme that will provide...

APM Conference 2013:...

Chairman of the highly publicised and debated rail network High Speed 2 (HS2) has been confirmed as the first speaker for the APM Project...

The ISO Standard...

A commentary from Daniel Hendling, PMP, vice president for volunteers and membership for the. PMI Austria Chapter, about the ISO Standard “Guidance on project...

Ten Six Consulting...

Jon Swain, President of Ten Six Consulting, LLC, predicts that BYOD, cost savings, project entrepreneurship, sponsorship and a business focus will be the trending...

Census of the...

Project management census aims to take the pulse of the current UK project management marketplace by soliciting the views of over 2000 practitioners. Now in...

The costs of...

Quality was defined by Juran as fit for purpose, this elegant definition applies equally to the quality of your management processes and information as...

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