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When Should I Take the PMP Exam?
Posted on May 8, 2012 | No CommentsTweet As you prepare for the PMP® exam, one of your most important decisions will be when to actually take the exam. For many people, the question of when is... -
Portfolio Management Masterclass
Posted on May 4, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Portfolio management is becoming ever more popular and one of the leaders in the field – Terry Doerscher – is making a rare appearance in the UK on May... -
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... -
Project Management Cookbook
Posted on April 23, 2012 | No CommentsTweet In a recent project management careers clinic, I was asked the question – PRINCE2 or APMP, which one should someone looking to increase their project management knowledge early in... -
Project Management Competencies and Age
Posted on April 19, 2012 | 1 CommentTweet In this month’s project management newsletter from Arras People we are delving deeper into the results from the annual Project Management Benchmark Report (PMBR). Specifically we’re looking at the... -
Take the April Ten in Ten Survey
Posted on April 3, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Just a quick spot for our Camel readers, as most of you are already aware that things have finished up for March and have been let loose for April.... -
Would Self-Study work for me?
Posted on March 21, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Over the years I have attended classroom courses and also done self-study qualifications. I am often asked which is the best way to study and take accreditations in project... -
Project Management Recruitment Ideas – Recruiting PMO Staff
Posted on March 2, 2012 | No CommentsTweet As PMO lead my PMO is at a point where it is at a good level of maturity and we feel it is time to expand it, can you... -
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... -
What makes a ‘Good’ Project Manager?
Posted on February 16, 2012 | 7 CommentsTweet The traits of a good project manager are becoming ever more discussed on LinkedIn message boards. The subject has many diverse perhaps controversial views we are going to debate.... -
New Project Paradigm for Civil Servants
Posted on February 8, 2012 | No CommentsTweet The launch of the Major Projects Leadership Academy sees a new approach in the delivery of government funded projects. With a portfolio of some 200 projects amounting to in... -
The Meaning and Purpose of a PMO
Posted on February 6, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Let me start in the spirit of that classic US game show ‘Jeopardy!’ … Answer: ‘a PMO’ Question: (and therefore actually the correct answer; that is just the way... -
Can I Earn PDUs for Writing Project Management Articles?
Posted on January 30, 2012 | No CommentsTweet Yes you can! Ever since the Project Management Institute (PMI) published the new Category and Structure for Professional Development Units (PDUs) in March 2011, earning PDUs has become much... -
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... -
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... -
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... -
Leading Successful PMOs: Part 1
Posted on October 11, 2011 | No CommentsTweet EDITOR’S NOTE: Many of you will know Peter Taylor from his popular book – The Lazy Project Manager – but did you know Peter also recently released a new... -
APMP Diary – One Week ’til Exam Time
Posted on October 7, 2011 | No CommentsTweet With my week long APMP Course just around the corner, I thought I’d put together a final installment of my diary for now before embarking on my APMP adventure... -
APMP Diary – Project Management in Context and Organisation / Governance
Posted on September 23, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Three weeks on Friday I will be sitting my APMP exam. I’m not sure where the time is going to be honest but I’m now getting well and truly... -
APMP Diary – 1 month to go…
Posted on September 16, 2011 | No CommentsTweet As the leading Project Management recruitment specialists, at Arras People we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the profession, not only in terms of industry knowledge but... -
Combining PMP Certification, APMP and PRINCE2 into a Global Project Academy
Posted on August 10, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Project management, which was born in the 1960, is increasingly being recognised as a true project profession with recognised standards and accreditation routes. However around the world a number of... -
Thinking About PPM Education
Posted on August 1, 2011 | No CommentsTweet For those of you keen on our monthly newsletter, Project Management Tipoffs, you might know that we try to keep our readers abreast of what’s happening in both project... -
Reminiscing About Podcasts
Posted on April 28, 2011 | No CommentsTweet We’ve got some equipment upgrades on the way for the benefit of the quality of our podcasts, which you’ve willingly downloaded by the thousand. The Project Management Tipoffs Podcast... -
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... -
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... -
Project Management Leadership Competencies (PMLC)
Posted on March 28, 2011 | No CommentsTweet There was a time where hiring companies believed that having someone with a PMP©, Six Sigma Blackbelt/Master Blackbelt, Prince2, etc designation meant that the individual would be a great... -
Criminal Business Case Writers and Medieval Fools
Posted on March 14, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Last week I went along to the PMOSIG conference in Coventry, the theme for the day was portfolio management and the delegates were specifically interested in what this means... -
Direct Learning from Home – the Half Way Story
Posted on March 4, 2011 | No CommentsTweet Wow, that has been a busy 4 weeks! Alongside working I have been undertaking an online course in Advanced Strategic Project Management being offered by Villanova University in the... -
Experience versus Classroom
Posted on February 16, 2011 | No CommentsTweet This is the second in our line of archived Question & Answer columns ripped from Project Management Tipoffs. The entirety of the article is available here. Though this Thursday’s... -
PMO Resourcing – Recent Findings
Posted on February 2, 2011 | 1 CommentTweet Last week I listened in on a webinar from Terry Doerscher from Planview, the webinar featured their findings from a recent survey focused on PMOs. If you’ve not had...
