The very definition of Holiday (Noun – an extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in travelling), is an entirely flexible parameter to work within, so how do we adapt? And what Project Management lessons are to be learnt from this summer?
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I have been running this project management news website for over 10 years now, the domain was registered in 2008. Today we have 570 posts, which is an average of once a week for each week in those ten years. Over the years we have seen many changes. Why Project Accelerator? The site started as
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So this week, we did our second live stream. This time John Bolton and I discussed linear, iterative and hybrid lifecycles. It’s a new topic in the 7th editions of the APM Body of Knowledge and it’s now also part of the APM PMQ syllabus. Linear lifecycles have been around for many years; they envisage
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WELCOME TO OUR FIRST GO LIVE ON THE APM BOK7. Always keen to innovate and try new thing today, Parallel Project Training, launched their first live stream. This is the first of many hosted by Matt Bolton. The first Livestream covered changes and updates in the seventh edition of the Association for Project Management Body
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Richard Carter joins Bubble® as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Cambridge, United Kingdom: 12th September 2019 Bubble®, a leading provider of cloud-based Project Portfolio Management Software, today announced that Richard Carter has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO). In his role Richard will be responsible for overall application development, technology development, and product delivery.
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It makes sense doesn’t it? Which exercise DVD are you going to buy? The one that features 50 different gruelling exercises or the one that promises you’ll drop a dress size in a week? Harvard Business School professor, Theodore Levitt, once put this beautifully, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a
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Global innovation and transformation consultancy PA Consulting (PA) today announces that 10 of its employees have been awarded with Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status making them some of the first of their kind in the world. The ChPP standard is a professional benchmark exclusively awarded by the Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered body
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Even if you’re the kind of employee who plans everything out ahead of time and always gets project done before deadlines, there will come a time when you’re under the gun with a mountain of work and too little time. Because this can be stressful, and therefore a detriment to getting that said work done,
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I just spent some time with an exasperated CIO. Frustrated by IT Projects that were failing time after time – completing late and over budget – despite his Project Management Office being staffed by experienced Project Managers each with an impressive track record of success. “Could buying in Project Management As A Service be an
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I remember reading a report called “The Challenges of Remotely Managing A Project”. It must be more than ten years ago now and it’s interesting thinking back to how I felt reading it. I and many others were already enjoying benefits in working collaboratively with colleagues who were not in the same office, the same
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