It is well known that projects with any level of complexity are highly likely to exceed their budget or deadline. But if your project is heading in that direction, what is the best way to get it back on track? A project that is out of control, either in respect of the budget or the […]
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How do leaders get to where they are? Getting to a leadership position takes a mixture of grit and determination, as well as having a range of technical and field-specific knowledge under your belt. Did you happen to notice anything missing from that list? You guessed it: it also takes soft skills. It is all
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I am writing a short article for Project Magazine on the use of social media for communicating lessons learned in project management. For example the use of project blogs and forums on a company intranet to communicate and share lessons learned. I am looking for a couple of case studies to feature in the article.
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Paul Naybour and John Bolton, Parallel Project Training The social media revolution The last ten years have see an explosion in social media with an estimated 307.4million unique visitors to social network sites in December 2009, an increase on 82% on the previous year (Nielsen Company, 2010). Many dozens of sites exist but the most
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In order to be effective, all project meetings should have a clear objective stated in advance and a detailed agenda distributed to all attendees prior to the meeting. But there is more to a successful meeting than a stated purpose and a well thought out agenda? In setting both the objective and agenda, the project
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Who is the risk owner? In the post credit crunch era will anyone believe risk management again? Risk management has gone down the road of building ever more complex and sophisticated databases of project risk. Each risk is categorised and analysed to death. Do we run the risk of missing the wood for the trees?
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Project management has existed since buildings were first erected or ships first built but it wasn’t known by that name in mankind’s early history. It was with the development of Gantt charts in the second decade of the 20th century that the role of managing a set of inter-related tasks to deliver an end-product to
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More and more project managers are managing remote workers because businesses are becoming increasingly global. Companies want to tap into the best talent, which is why they will often outsource or hire teams based overseas. Recent research shows that 40% of remote job listings allow international remote work. While this presents many benefits, it can
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With the APM re-writing the Body of Knowledge being extended to cover project, programme and portfolio management can we expect different approaches to risk management each or will the same process apply to each level in the same way. What is the project risk management process? The project risk management process is well known. With initiate the
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When you are in charge of a team of people, one of the important things that you need to know how to do is motivate others. After all, you are going to be working with a different number of people. Some of these have different goals and different things that motivate them to reach these
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