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PA Consulting employees among world’s first Chartered Project Professionals

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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Horses for courses – Why your consultant should match your project and your culture

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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Tell IT Project Stakeholders what they need to hear… Not what they want to hear

Three IT Projects have recently been almost scuppered by the same thing. A crippling, debilitating disease that lies dormant for months before inevitably and painfully killing the IT Project it has infected … ‘Yesitis’. Sufferers of ‘Yesitis’ are unable to say \’no\’, perhaps because of a poor corporate culture, or fear, or maybe just a

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Parallel Leads the Way with Chartered Project Professional

Today the Association for Project Management opened the register for Chartered Project Professional\’s. It\’s been a long wait. The first post on the topic was way back in 2011 when, the late,  Mike Nichols, announced a vision for a world in which every project succeeds at the APM Project Management Awards. Seven years later Mike would have been proud to see his

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Six Perennial Challenges in Managing Small Projects and how to Overcome them

Small projects present a whole host of problems and issues for businesses, whether its vulnerability to absenteeism or the challenge of sourcing a small team that have the skillset to see the project through to its end. As with every project, it pays to have a project manager with the requisite soft skills and technical

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Bubble Ltd, achieves global ISO 27001 certification for its information security management system.

  Cambridge, United Kingdom: 9th January 2018   Bubble, a leading provider of cloud-based Project Portfolio Management Software, today announced that it has received the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 security certification (ISO 27001), one of the most widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standards. The ISO 27001 designation formally confirms the company adheres to legal, physical,

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