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What is the difference between Project, Programme and Portfolio Risk Management

With the APM re-writing the Body of Knowledge being extended to cover project, programme and portfolio management can we expect different approaches to risk management each or will the same process apply to each level in the same way. What is the project risk management process? The project risk management process is well known. With initiate the […]

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Re-thinking IT recruitment is not rocket science

Re-thinking IT recruitment is not rocket science. Well, not always!

Where do your new IT hires come from? Other IT companies? How\’s that working out? If you\’re finding the traditional talent pools are drying up, you are not alone. In the UK, British Gas hired an ex-NASA data scientist to progress its Hive smart heating project, who said IT recruitment wasn\’t rocket science?! In the

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stop office politics killing your IT projects

7 Silver bullets to stop office politics killing your IT projects

Office politics! Working in IT Project Management, given the profession\’s prominent role in the facilitation of business strategy and driving business change, you\’d think we\’d be above it! Project managers and leaders are among the most intelligent individuals you could hope to work with and yet many IT Projects are still scuppered by workplace politics.

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how to waste less on it projects

How to waste less on IT projects

Reading The Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2017 Pulse of the Profession report something jumped out and really grabbed my attention. It\’s something that should be celebrated. As a profession, the Project Management industry is less wasteful. Specifically, more projects are achieving original goals. they\’re coming in within budget and they are aligned with business strategy.

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