Reported by Miles Shepherd in UK 4 December 2013 – London, UK – The Association for Project Management (APM) has announced that Mike Nichols, its Chairman who retired at the November 2013 Annual General Meeting, died on Tuesday 3 December. Perhaps best known for his dedicated work on APM’s case for the award of a Royal Charter, Mike […]
A recent survey released by Parallel Project Management shows that attending a professional project management course provides a multitude of benefits, both for the project manager and the corporation. Statistics show that management training increases overall success rates for project completion. Past attendees of the Parallel Project Management Training Courses took a survey on the
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As Social and Environmental Stewardship is increasingly becoming the top driver for business success, with issues such as global warming, pollution, depletion of natural resources, energy efficiency and energy conservation in the headlines on a daily basis. These factors need to be taken into account in all project phases, in the use of the products,
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HSI and PMI formalize longstanding partnership to deliver unparalleled strategic business insight The Project Management Institute (PMI) has acquired Human Systems International (HSI), a UK-based assessment and benchmarking company with keen organizational insight developed over 20 years of collecting best practice project, program and portfolio management data from commercial and government organizations around the world.
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Battersea Power Station, Deptford Dockyard, Grimsby Ice Factory and Sulgrave Manor in Northamptonshire are the UK sites listed today on the 2014 World Monuments Watch. They join a diverse group of 67 sites from 41 countries and territories across the world, including the city of Venice, the Ancient Irrigated Terraces of Battir outside Bethlehem
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Gower Publishing have launched their latest Handbook in the series – The Handbook of People in Project Management. With three years in the making, over 60 chapters and 44 individual contributors, the new handbook is an eclectic mix which offers something new to the project practitioner. The handbook’s sections include; Management and Organisation People In
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Recently the head of the government’s flagship welfare reform project known as Universal Credit has stated that it has been suffering from poor project management. The aim of Universal Credit will merge a number benefits including income support, housing benefit, jobseeker’s allowance, child tax credits and also the working credit to provide one combined benefit.
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The long-awaited changes to A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Fifth Edition are welcome, and much needed. LA HABRA, Aug 1, 2013 – The recent release of A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK® Guide)—Fifth Edition finally addresses the issue of stakeholder management, providing much-needed guidance, according to
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Whenever a massive new project is unveiled, people who specialize in the various aspects that come into play in the project will offer their advice or criticisms. This factor has certainly been up front in the debate over the UK’s smart meter programme, and many of the dissenting voices have put forward cases that seem
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The formation of AXELOS as a joint venture between Capita and the Cabinet Office to manage project management qualification such as PRINCE2®, and ITIL®. This is a dramatic change for the development of a business model for project management training. Capita has committed to pay £10m as an up front payment and then £9.4m per year over the
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