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May Survey Opens Today
Posted on May 1, 2012 | No CommentsTweet The rain showers of the final weekend of April give way to the grand prize flowers of May. The May edition of the Arras People “Ten in Ten” Birthday... -
Targeting Success and Excellence – APM event
Posted on March 28, 2012 | No CommentsTweet The latest local APM event on Tuesday evening, 13th March was hosted by the Holiday Inn, Bolton. It was a very well attended event, even more so than usual... -
Days To Go: Tipoffs on Project Management Challenges
Posted on March 12, 2012 | No CommentsTweet As some of the UK’s #pmot brethren are in London next week for another installment of the bi-annual Project Challenge, Project Management Tipoffs comes out Thursday with a mind... -
Celebrate with us and win over 600 Pounds of project management books!
Posted on March 1, 2012 | No CommentsTweet ROLL UPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!! Arras People today formally announces the first prize draw in conjunction with co-sponsor Gower Publishing for the Arras People “Ten in Ten: A Celebration of Project Management”... -
A Celebration Fit For a Tenth Birthday!
Posted on February 22, 2012 | 2 CommentsTweet Arras People are excited to announce that they will be celebrating their 10th Birthday throughout the 2012 calendar year. And as Arras People and Arras Services continually strive to... -
My First Management of Value Webinar
Posted on January 24, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Did you tune into the MoV (Management of Value) webinar I presented last Wednesday? Like all first times, it was a fascinating experience, so I thought I would share... -
Project Challenge Spring Show 2012
Posted on January 21, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Visitors to the annual Project Challenge event will gain real practical value and a very worthwhile learning experience. The Spring Show for 2012 switches locations from the normal schedule... -
A decade of project management
Posted on January 10, 2012 | 1 CommentTweet Whoop! Arras People is a decade old this year and time seems to have flown by. The UK project management industry has changed quite a bit over that decade... -
Is 2012 the year to maximize the value your Projects deliver?
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsTweet 2012 will see the newly-launched MoV (Management of Value) Practitioner course. In the current economic climate there has never been a better time to learn MoV. MoV supplements the... -
International Project Management Day 2011
Posted on November 3, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Once you’ve put down the sandwich (Sandwich Day), got a bloke to make dinner (Men Make Dinner Day) and found light at the end of the tunnel (National Cliché... -
The Best Spooky Project
Posted on October 31, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Time for a little spooky fun. Events management is often seen as a poor relation to project management; maybe it’s because an events project is seen as low risk,... -
PMO Leadership – Free Event
Posted on October 29, 2011 | 2 CommentsTweet There’s a free event taking place in London on Tuesday 29th November 2011 on the subject of PMO Leadership. It’s being hosted by the PMOSIG which recently became part... -
Pace of Change – Portfolio Management
Posted on October 28, 2011 | No CommentsTweet This week I went along to an APM branch meeting in Yorkshire. It was hosted at Leeds University and the main speaker for the evening was James Butler... -
Take Pride, Project Managers!
Posted on September 28, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Among the hordes of exhibitors, presenters and topics of discussion on display at Project Challenge last week, colleague Terry Winstanley and I had a small window to work with... -
Synergy To Be Synonymous With Royalty
Posted on September 26, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Some very intriguing information emerged after we spoke with Ian McCallister of Project Management Institute UK at Project Challenge regarding Synergy 2011, to be held at the O2 Arena,... -
Arras People at APM in the Midlands
Posted on September 5, 2011 | No CommentsTweet John Thorpe and Lindsay Scott from Arras People will be presenting at two APM branch meetings in September and October 2011. An opportunity to find out more about the... -
Discount Code Available for Camel’s Agile Attendees
Posted on August 29, 2011 | No CommentsTweet We received the following message recently from our contacts at the upcoming Agile Business Conference, scheduled for 4th-6th October: We would like to invite you to attend the Agile... -
PMOSIG Finds a New Home at the APM
Posted on July 20, 2011 | No CommentsTweet The PMOSIG - the independent specialist interest group focused on programme and project office has been around for 10 years and now they have just moved to become the... -
Agile Business Conference 2011, Agile Grows Up
Posted on July 10, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Agile Project Management has claimed the spotlight in 2010-2011 and in October this year there is an opportunity to immerse yourself in it with a three day conference hosted... -
Project Challenge – Date for the Diary
Posted on July 9, 2011 | No CommentsTweet The doors are open once again for the Project Challenge – the project management exhibition and seminars show. The event remains free and requires registration through the website ... -
The People Challenges for the PMO
Posted on May 24, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Next week on the 2nd June there is a free session from the PMOSIG taking place at the Shell Centre on London’s South Bank. The event is open to... -
Virtual Meetings – Turning Bugbears into Effective Meetings
Posted on May 18, 2011 | No CommentsTweet I think we’ve all been there; stuck on a teleconference line waiting for people to show up – the constant pinging and announcement of others arriving (late!) whilst you’re... -
Best Practice Showcase 2011
Posted on May 13, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Join the largest meeting of minds in project management on Friday, 17th June at Grange St. Paul’s Hotel, London. The Best Practice Showcase 2011 have new and exciting news... -
Calling all Young Project Managers
Posted on May 10, 2011 | No CommentsTweet The IPMA (International Project Management Association) have just announced the opening for applications for the IPMA 2011 Young Project Manager Award and this year I’m hoping we see applications... -
APM North West – 10 Costly Contract Management Mistakes
Posted on April 15, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Last week I attended an APM event in Manchester organised in conjunction with the Contracts and Procurement SIG. Entitled ‘Top 10 most common and Costly Contract Management Mistakes’, the... -
Direct Learning from Home – the End Has Come!
Posted on April 13, 2011 | No CommentsTweet It is over, the end has come. My distance learning experience has finished after 8 weeks of directed learning. Am I sad? Yes. Am I glad I undertook an... -
Project Challenge Must Meet 2.0 Challenge
Posted on April 5, 2011 | 3 CommentsTweet I really didn’t want to be another of those “sign of things to come” chirping crickets. Seriously. But consider the opening frustrations we faced Thursday on the way to... -
Villano-More: School’s Out
Posted on March 30, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Indeed, my time as an online classroom student came to an official end Tuesday morning, 2:59 GMT. My Essentials of Project Management course is a wrap, complete, finito. One... -
A Showcase With a Difference
Posted on March 24, 2011 | No CommentsTweet The Best Practice Showcase has always been an exhibition and “unconference” with a difference. It’s run each year by the APMG who are responsible for the OGC project management... -
NLP, Apollo 13 and Project Managers
Posted on March 16, 2011 | 2 CommentsTweet For my money, a presentation that highlights how we think, what it means in the business of project management, clips from Apollo 13 and Clint Howard’s overwhelming forehead is...
