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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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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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,
The word risk has an inherently negative connotation to it. But what most folk don’t realise, is that anticipating risks is a sign of proactive management. A positive spin on risk can alert you to alternatives, create better opportunities, justify contingency plans and ultimately win you more business. Every invention falling under the Information
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Need a primer on managing project communications? This book on how to talk (and write, and more) about project change will help you ace your comms plan.
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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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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
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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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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The choice of project management as a first career is becoming increasingly common. This is a significant change because traditional project management was seen as a second career. This is a continuing trend as shown by the Arras People benchmark report. They asked project management practitioners asked if PPM is, in fact, their first career or their second. The
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