PM Benchmark Report 2012
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Presentation Counts
Posted on April 25, 2012 | No CommentsTweet EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an extract from ‘The Lazy Project Manager and The Project from Hell’ – Peter Taylor’s new book, currently free as an eBook from Amazon... -
Book Review: Social Media for Project Managers
Posted on March 22, 2011 | 1 CommentTweet Social media is slowly but surely creeping into the world of project management; with two thirds of the project management profession using social media in some way in their... -
Project Management in the Creative World
Posted on January 20, 2011 | 2 CommentsTweet Consider this oxymoron for a moment – project management rules the creative worlds of marketing, media, design and the arts. That’s right; the world of process, structure, control and... -
Celebrating International Project Management Day with a Success Story
Posted on November 4, 2010 | No CommentsTweet 4th November is the International Project Management Day, a day intended “to encourage project based organizations worldwide or organizations who utilize project management methodologies to schedule some type of... -
Prince2 & The Modern Project Manager
Posted on September 28, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Who are the candidates that appear to value and / or have invested in PRINCE2 in their quest for gainful project management employment? In this piece we are looking... -
BP and Risk Assessment: In Hot Water
Posted on July 28, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet It goes without saying that some projects inherently present higher levels of risk to higher amounts of people and environment than others. You also would nod your head in agreement that... -
Is English Football a Project or a Programme to Capello?
Posted on June 23, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet Footballers for the English team may hold the same sway over the success of a World Cup campaign as a project team holds over the success of a project.... -
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... -
Project Managers are not as Gloomy as the Rest of the Population
Posted on February 24, 2010 | 4 CommentsTweet New research from Monster.co.uk, the major job board, shows that ” fears over job security are encouraging a quarter of UK workers to quit their jobs and start a... -
Survey Shows Underuse of Social Media Amongst Job Seekers
Posted on January 27, 2010 | 2 CommentsTweet Early returns from the Arras People 2010 Project Management Benchmark Survey show that only four per cent of project management job seekers use social media to find new vacancies,... -
Twittering about Projects Part II
Posted on January 14, 2010 | 5 CommentsTweet The January 2010 edition of Project Magazine featured a small blurb in the News section about the recent popularity of Twitter under the headline ‘Twitter bug’. Inviting project managers... -
Monday Morning Links – 11th January
Posted on January 11, 2010 | No CommentsTweet A Programme Manager got challenged by a subordinate this week and was subsequently suspended from an ongoing project. That was my immediate reaction to David Stern’s decision to suspend... -
Tuesdays with Morning Links
Posted on January 5, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet So the noughts, aughts, double-0′s, infinity-turned-its-side decade is left to the historians and now. Just figuring out what to call this decade past has been a trip. With that... -
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 – 9th November
Posted on November 9, 2009 | 3 CommentsTweet Cliche Quote of the Week… Come together right now over me The Beatles, “Come Together” Only the most important day in project management across the entirety of the universe,... -
Monday Morning Links – 26th October
Posted on October 26, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet “You can observe a lot just by watching.” Yogi Berra It’s en vogue and a bit overdone, even for an English blog, to quote Yogi Berra. And though the Hall... -
Book Review: The Green Guide for Business
Posted on October 2, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Authors simply have a comfort zone in which they can write most effectively, as you are no doubt aware. When you think John Grisham, you know you’re getting good... -
Sending Out a Guest Blogger Request For How to Manage a Camel
Posted on September 29, 2009 | No CommentsTweet We, the people behind the blogs of Arras People (How to Manage a Camel and our own internal happenings Arras People blog), want you to know we’ve taken great pleasure... -
From Tipoffs – The Energizing of Green Awareness & Business Practices
Posted on September 25, 2009 | No CommentsTweet NOTE: This article is reprinted from the September 2009 edition of Project Management Tipoffs. If you wish to contribute an article to a future edition of Tipoffs, email us at this address, and... -
How to Win a Tipoffs’ Reviewed Book
Posted on August 26, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet Our monthly book review @ Project Management Tipoffs featured headhunter Tony Haley’s solid, insightful work on avoiding being another mere CV on a hiring manager’s ‘Thanks for applying’ card... -
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... -
Tipoffs is out, available at our online newstand now!
Posted on August 20, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Last month at Project Management Tipoffs, the project management news & issues newsletter from Arras People, spoke with you (OK, wrote to you) about the economic climate and the uplifting effect... -
Small projects with large outcomes
Posted on May 22, 2009 | No CommentsTweet I was fortunate enough to gain a greater insight into a local charity this week when dropping by with a donation of £500 to the welfare fund. Last year... -
Haven’t heard much about Chartered Status lately…
Posted on April 23, 2009 | No CommentsTweet From anywhere, from anyone, for any reason whatsoever, we here at Arras People are left only to wonder amidst the overly red skin on our necks from the past... -
Update to the “Understanding the PMO” section
Posted on April 9, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet When we launched our Project Management Benchmark Report back in February 2009 we included a section in our findings about the role PMOs play in our respondant’s organisations. We... -
The Month of Seven – Arras People’s Seven Modern Projects of the World
Posted on April 7, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet All month long, in congruence with Arras People’s celebration of its seventh birthday, we here at the Camel will take a weekly look at the number 7 – the... -
Masterclass in Sloppy Project Management – News of a Public Sector IT headache
Posted on March 16, 2009 | No CommentsTweet With recent media investigations dealing with the extent of government waste, this item is not comforting to public sector project management professionals. We’ve reviewed ContractorUK’s report on this story, but... -
Gender Equality – Time for a rethink?
Posted on November 6, 2008 | No CommentsTweet We are now 33 years on from the introduction of the first legislation regarding gender in the workplace but could recent comments such as “Equality laws are now holding... -
Market Snapshot – Hiring on the agenda?
Posted on October 24, 2008 | No CommentsTweet After a very quiet August and then seeing a pick up in opportunities during September; we thought this was an ideal time to have a look at the marketplace... -
The APM take on BAE…
Posted on September 24, 2008 | No CommentsTweet If you read Dan’s post last week which highlighted my need for a haircut in blown up form you’ll be aware that BAE Systems were kind enough recently to...
