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Jobs Special: How to Respond to the Changing Project Management Jobs Market

Special Edition with Lindsy Scott of Project Management Recruitment – Arras People. In this edition we look at the changes in the project management jobs market for employers and candidates since the...

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Delivering Sustainability

You can look up almost any fortune 500 company and find out what their ethics policy or environmental stewardship goals are on their website. How organizations accomplish these goals vary from one to...

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Training The Best To Be Better

Major ERP Software Provider invests in bespoke training for its top project managers Reading, UK. 04 July 2012: Project Managers from across the globe gathered recently at the UK headquarters in High...

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The Project Management Profession Should Hold Its Head Up High

In the wake of the hugely successful 2012 Olympics in the UK let’s hope that the project managers involved get some recognition of their contribution to the success. There can be few projects of this...

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Would You Spot The Warning Signs of a Failing Project?

It would be good to think that a professional project manager could spot the warning signs of a project headed for failure but the sheer number of projects that fail to deliver on their promises,...

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The Importance of Change Management

Every experienced project manager knows that at some point in the lifecycle of a project, if not throughout the whole lifecycle, there will be requests for changes: changes to the specification,...

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The Processes Involved in Change Management

I started off intending to write a straightforward blog post about change management from the project manager’s perspective – change management the conventional way; that focusses on processes within...

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Jan Underdown – Project Manager Interview

Recently I had the opportunity to speak to Jan Underdown, one of the Associates and a Project Management trainer with Parallel Project Training. She told me something of her background, how she got...

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Balancing Good Project Management with Creative Freedom

I have often discussed whether as a project manager you need specific business or industry knowledge and experience in order to manage a project in that business/industry. Specific business knowledge...

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Project Management in a Post-Recession World

It’s a relief that we are finally seeing signs of economic recovery on both sides of the Atlantic but the challenge now is whether companies that responded quickly and cut back in the hard times can...

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Why is a Project Management Framework Necessary?

A project management framework defines how projects of various sizes and complexity should be managed within an organisation so that all projects are managed in a consistent way. Not all projects will...

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What will be the project managment trends in 2014

Will 2014 see PRINCE2 continuing global presence, social networking going mainstream for project control, will agile continue to grow, will the PM get chartered status. Vote now on your Project...

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How project managment courses will make you a great project manager

Professionals across the globe have discovered that project management courses can increase their success as professional project managers (PM). All project phases are vital to a successful project...

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Project Planning Techniques

A project plan is the glue which will hold a project together and help to make it a success. It will enable the project manager to easily assign tasks, monitor progress and costs as well as communicate...

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What Are The Benefits of Planning a Project?

Individuals and organisations regularly start a project believing that it can be easily controlled and does not require formal planning to be completed successfully. Such projects are likely to be...

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A Basic Guide for Success in Project Management

Project management in its simplest form is the organisation and tracking of tasks required to complete a project. A project can be anything from planning a new garden layout for your own home,...

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Moving into Project Management as a Career

If you’ve considered the possibility of becoming a project manager within your current organisation but have not found any opportunities available, you may now be looking at other avenues that will...

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Project Management and the ‘Fundamental Attribution Error’

Q: What stands between a Project Manager and established project objectives? A: People.   It stands to reason, then: findings in the disciplines of Psychology and Social Psychology are as relevant to...

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How Mind Mapping Can Bring a Fresh Approach to Project Management

During a professional project manager’s career they are likely to experience a range of projects in all shapes and sizes. At least that is what we all like to hope would happen to bring variety to our...

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Salary Trends: Are You Just an Average Project Manager?

We all like to think of ourselves as successful project managers or maybe you are aspiring to be a successful project manager but the recent 2015 inaugural APM Salary and Market Trends Survey starts...

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