According to the latest Arras People report The Project Management Training Report issued last week, the greatest return on a project management course or accreditation is the Project Management Institute’s PMP. In the latest independent and indepth report, various themes are covered: Salary levels for project practitioners based on the accreditations they have A look […]
Chronic Delays Making Already Extremely Expensive Power Source Even More Costly: At Least 49 Out of 66 Reactor Projects Now Running Behind Schedule, Including All 5 in U.S. and Most in China. Contrary to what is often claimed in the United States by proponents of nuclear power, the reality is that other nations around the
Yesterday Phones 4U was in administration, because EE had canceled contracts today is seem that those same organisations that cancelled the contracts are circling to pick over the remains. Professor Andre Spicer, Cass Business School: “Vodafone and EE have come out as winners. They have eliminated a competitor in retail, gained some plum locations and paid
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The Times and Raconteur Media, the specialist content publisher have today released the latest Project Management supplement in Thursday’s edition of the Times. The supplement includes leading articles on project management featuring PwC, APM, PMI, Arras People, Parallel Training and a whole host of other project management organisations. With articles such as On Time and
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Project Challenge, the UK’s leading project management show opens its doors again in London on the 14th and 15th October. With free entry and a full programme of stimulating seminars and talks, Project Challenge also gives you the opportunity to meet the leading project management organisations. To register please visit the website The show includes
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Parallel Project Training is now collaborating with Acuity Training to bring their clients Microsoft Project Training of the highest quality. But first, an explanation of what Microsoft Project is. What is Microsoft Project? Microsoft Project is one of the most popular and common tools used for project scheduling. Its popularity lies in the fact that
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Sun Tzu wrote The Art of War nearly 2500 years ago; his ideas have been widely translated and are regularly used as a guide for management thinking. This post will take a different perspective, ‘Sun Tzu and the art of stakeholder engagement’! After all “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle”, which is
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Have you ever wondered why some people are always late for meetings or why some people get upset when you are late but others don’t worry too much?? The chances are you are dealing with people who see time differently. For some, time flows from the future into the present and on to the past
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We’re all familiar with the idea of documents such as a change log or lessons log. Some people also keep a diary known as a daily log, but how many of us use that as a sort of ‘ideas log’? Many good project and programme managers have a creative streak. They are constantly thinking of
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Embedding a project management policy in an organization is the first of many steps that will help you leverage the immense potential of project management for your business. The choice of the right methodology, project manager and project management software, and impressing upon employees the need to scrutinize, align, evaluate and monitor their activities within
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