PM Benchmark Report 2012
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- Dan Strayer: Jim, Thank you very much for pointing this out. I should have been on top of that. I do find it interesting and a great tribute to...
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Top 13 Project Management Bloggers for 2012
Posted on May 2, 2012 | 2 CommentsTweet Last month Arras People’s 10th birthday celebrations kicked off with some great book prizes from Gower Publishing. As part of the competition we asked you who were your top... -
Four of 5 Practitioners Use Books as a PPM Resource
Posted on April 12, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Results from the survey we cast for the March edition of Ten in Ten: A Celebration of Project Management gives us some insight into the media resources PPM practitioners... -
National “Be Nice to your Suppliers” Week
Posted on March 7, 2012 | No CommentsTweet EDITOR’S NOTE: Written on behalf of Global Knowledge, this post’s author is Barry Corless, the Business Development Director for Best Practice at Global Knowledge and Chairman of itSMF UK.... -
Finding a Job Through Social Media
Posted on November 25, 2010 | No CommentsTweet This morning I was reading an article called the “The Future of Recruitment” which noted something I’ve been banging on about for years – that organisations should turn to... -
Help Give a Thirsty Camel Some Water!
Posted on October 21, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet We’re delighted to have been shortlisted for this year’s IT Blog Awards 2010 from ComputerWeekly.com but it’s going to be tough because we’re up against some other great bloggers.... -
The Camel is Back!
Posted on August 27, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet After a few days break we’re back and ready to roll – the Camel has moved location to its brand new home within the Arras People new website layout.... -
Social Media and Project Management
Posted on June 29, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet Last week I met up with Paul Naybour of Parallel Training to take part in a podcast about social media and project management, it was also great to see... -
Proud to be Part of the PPM Community
Posted on June 4, 2010 | No CommentsTweet This blog you’re reading right now has been chosen by readers as the sixth-most popular blog in the project and programme management blogosphere, according to the Top 100 PPM... -
Guest Blogger – Is Programme Management Right for Me?
Posted on April 19, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Programme management is the co-ordinated management of a portfolio of projects that change organisations to achieve benefits that are of strategic importance. Programme management involves; working within and changing... -
Guest Blogger – Project Management the Teenage Years
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsWhat will be the project management trends in the teens? They say the past is no predictor of the future but what will be the up and coming trends for the teens 1) The fallout from the credit crunch and severely reduced public spending lead to a severe reduction in the demand for project management and a decade of cost cutting and cancelled projects? 2) Will the increasing pressure for change lead to an increasing demand for truly professional project managers, maybe (or maybe not) linked to chartered status? 3) Will pressure for consistency continue with consolidation between the different methodologies (PRINCE2, APM, PMP)? 4) Will new social media tools such as Google Wave help us organise the mass of information generated by projects using meta tags and search tool in the same way Google Search Engine made sense of the web. Or (5) all of the above? VOTE NOW -
Sending out an S.O.S.
Posted on November 24, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Back in the days when I edited a sports page for a daily newspaper in the U.S. of A., I’d print off the final template of pages I was... -
Monday Morning Links – 23rd November
Posted on November 23, 2009 | No CommentsTweet (Not So) Cliche Quote of the Week: Books had instant replay long before televised sports. Bern Williams With the reactions worldwide of the absolute hosing the Republic of Ireland’s... -
Monday Morning Links – 2nd November
Posted on November 2, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Oh, Lisa! You and your stories! “Dad, Bart is a vampire.” “Beer kills brain cells.” Now, let’s get back to that… building thingy… where our beds and T.V… is.... -
Monday Morning Links – 19th October
Posted on October 19, 2009 | No CommentsTweet I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you. -Neil Armstrong Our heads are swelling... -
Arras People Interviews Earth PM Co-Founders
Posted on October 9, 2009 | No CommentsTweet As green initiatives have infiltrated both public and corporate conscience in recent times, we at Arras People wanted to learn more about the green sector as it applied to the... -
Monday Morning Links
Posted on October 5, 2009 | 4 CommentsTweet Welcome to the first full week of October. Today at The Camel we introduce a new running theme for the start of each week – some links regarding project management... -
Wanted: Knowledgeable Project Management Writers
Posted on August 21, 2009 | No CommentsTweet We have had numerous responses within the last week concerned with our blog post requesting Guest Bloggers for How to Manage a Camel. You may have also noticed the immediate... -
5 Steps To Recovering Your Project Sanity
Posted on June 10, 2009 | No CommentsTony had just finished a year-long project, and was exhausted. As a good project manager should, he had been keeping a lessons learned file throughout the project, and now that it was completed he was making a final entry, looking back over the whole year. Let's peek into... -
Guest Blogger – Does Your Project Team Fall Prey To These Common Productivity Killers?
Posted on June 2, 2009 | 3 CommentsTweet The dangers of multi tasking to project teams has never been more so. Now we have additional online services and mobile devices to deal with. What I wrote about... -
Guest PM Bloggers – Interested?
Posted on May 7, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Fancy contributing an article to the Camel? We’re looking for Project Management bloggers to contribute an article to the popular How to Manage a Camel. Do you have something... -
Tipoffs Out For the Month of April
Posted on April 22, 2009 | No CommentsTweet The April 2009 edition of Project Management Tipoffs is now out and ready for your reading pleasure. Entitled ‘Controlling April Showers’, our theme revolves around control and task-oriented management... -
‘My Way Was the Better’ – A Look at The Ingenuity of Josephine Garis Cochrane on Ada Lovelace Day
Posted on March 24, 2009 | No CommentsTweet In our daily household chores, I take it upon myself to handle the dish-related responsibilities after a long day at work. I felt it’s only fair, as my better-half, a... -
Getting Into Project Management – How a Careers Clinic Can Help
Posted on March 5, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet It is nowhere close to the struggles of a “glass ceiling” or a “seperate but equal” workplace inequity, but breaking into a new line of work undoubtedly has its rough patches... -
American Sport IS Project Management!
Posted on February 23, 2009 | No CommentsTweet UPDATED: Thursday, 26 February – I admit that being a fan of professional American sports (you know the ones: Baseball, Football, Basketball, MLS (you try telling an American footballer... -
Premiership Football is so like project management
Posted on February 23, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Last night, MOTD2 (that’s Match of the Day 2!) a revelation, premiership football teams are just like project teams. We were watching the Man City game (the only team... -
Top Tips – 101 tips for managers
Posted on December 15, 2008 | No CommentsTweet Published at Inside CRM, this blog piece is full of little pearls of wisdom, I especially liked these: “4. Make eye contact. Always look directly into the eyes of... -
Project Management Tipoffs Are Go!
Posted on October 30, 2008 | No CommentsTweet Project Management Recruitment (with a noticeable hand from our good friend ‘colour’!) are the themes this month as Arras People releases the latest edition of Project Management Tipoffs, the... -
Arras in the Community – The Groundwork Volunteer Project – Week One
Posted on September 15, 2008 | No CommentsTweet We at Arras People are often confronted via telephone with eager young workers ‘looking to get into project management’ (in spite of all the literature trying to show them... -
Tipoffs and PM News to be distributed Thursday
Posted on August 26, 2008 | No CommentsTweet The wait is nearly over, Project Management newsletter fans: the August editions of Project Management Tipoffs and Project Management News is out Thursday, August 28. This month’s theme revolves... -
Chartered Project Management survey still seeks your input!
Posted on August 18, 2008 | No CommentsTweet Many of you have spoken since its introduction, and we are appreciative of what you have had to say thus far. But our Arras People survey on the Chartered...
