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

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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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Charted Project Professional Register Live

Parallel Leads the Way with Chartered Project Professional

APM, News

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

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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.

Insights, News, PM Software, PMO, Programme Management

  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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Project Challenge Returns This Autumn

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Project Challenge returns to London Olympia on Tuesday 10th and Wednesday 11th October with a full project management expo and over 40 project management seminars available. The event is free of charge to attend for PM practitioners – registration available through the Project Challenge website. Alongside the full project management exhibition there are sessions available

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Team harmony

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Ensuring your team operates as a harmonious unit is a key to project success, particularly if you are managing a diverse virtual team.  The McKinsey 7-S Framework is one useful approach to understanding how the team is interacting. The McKinsey 7-S framework was developed in the early 1980s by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman, two

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Call to end ‘one in, three out’ deregulation gains wide support

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More than 700 organisations and individuals have now signed an open letter to UK Prime Minister Theresa May which challenges arbitrary deregulation of health and safety. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze, global health and safety professionals, leading academics and some MPs have joined leading organisations in signing the letter. Sent to 10

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Blue Ball Solutions Becomes First Changepoint Partner to Reach Platinum Status

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Changepoint a leading provider of project and portfolio management (PPM), enterprise architecture (EA) and professional services automation applications (PSA), today announced that Blue Ball Solutions has become Changepoint’s first partner to achieve Platinum status. As Changepoint’s first dedicated European partner, Blue Ball has worked with numerous global enterprise clients to achieve technology-led business transformation goals, including

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