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Archive for 2007
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HP’s Portfolio and Project Management Software
Posted on November 27, 2007 | No CommentsTweet Has anyone seen this – used it? > HP page Just interested to hear any thoughts? -
Project Management Trade Shows – Your Thoughts Needed
Posted on November 6, 2007 | 4 CommentsTweet We’re in the process of putting together our November issue of Tipoffs and was hoping you might share your thoughts about Project Management trade shows / exhibitions/ conferences etc... -
What is a contractor or an employee?
Posted on November 5, 2007 | 1 CommentTweet We are often asked what the benefits are of being a contrator or an employee – we define an interim or contractor as someone brought in to fill a... -
CV Writing Services – Godsend or Rip Off
Posted on October 18, 2007 | 4 CommentsTweet Everyone knows how important the CV is when looking for a new job and one of the biggest concerns people have- is mine good enough? It’s one of the... -
PPSOSIG Conference on Tools, Techniques and Approaches
Posted on October 9, 2007 | No CommentsTweet The conference on the 26th and 27th September in Coventry went well – probably one of our best yet – a good bunch of programme and project support professionals... -
PRINCE2 Meets the Grumpy Old Man!
Posted on August 31, 2007 | 16 CommentsTweet Is it really true, am I going all Victor Meldrew in my old age? I really can not help myself having seen the latest output from the PRINCE2 website... -
What would you like to discuss??
Posted on August 21, 2007 | 5 CommentsTweet Hello Readers – anyone there? Having completed over 6 months of entries on this project management blog and trying many different tacts from survey results through to ageism, it... -
Project Management The Core Attribute is Attitude! – Survey of Soft Skills
Posted on July 26, 2007 | 1 CommentTweet Another question from the Arras People Project Management Soft Skills Survey. The list below show the order in which people rated our proposed Project Manager core attributes, the question... -
Soft Skills Survey – More results on the most important skills
Posted on July 20, 2007 | No CommentsTweet As part of the Arras People Soft Skills Survey we asked participants to rate the relevant importance of the following soft skills – Consistency, Interfacing, Decisive, Structuring, Relationship Builder,... -
Soft Skills Survey – some of your thoughts
Posted on July 19, 2007 | 3 CommentsTweet In a recent survey run in Arras People’s Project Management Tipoffs Newsletter people were asked about the importance of soft skills in project management – below is a preview... -
All Things Arras – Purely Educational!!
Posted on July 18, 2007 | No CommentsTweet Taking some time away from Project Management Recruitment, I thought I would share with you activities related to Arras! Poets and patriots Guardian Unlimited – UK We know what... -
The Soft Skills of Project Management
Posted on June 27, 2007 | No CommentsTweet In our June Project Management Newsletter we’ve put together a short article on the soft skills in project management. Read on and add your views to the survey… The... -
NHS At last a site visit! Taste of Own Medicine Perhaps
Posted on June 7, 2007 | No CommentsTweet Bout time those in charge of the NHS Connecting for Health took an interest at the point of delivery – a no holds article from Computing good insight and... -
More Project Management Sayings
Posted on June 5, 2007 | 1 CommentTweet Close but no cigar. Don’t know your arse from your elbow Understand to be understood It is easier to ask for forgiveness Projects get late one day at a... -
PPSO – Tools, Techniques and Approaches
Posted on May 21, 2007 | No CommentsTweet The next PPSOSIG conference – which is being held on the 26-27th September 2007, promises to be an informative (and thought provoking one!). The agenda is being finalised as... -
Ever been embarrassed Track Changes MSword – USA – Iraq
Posted on May 21, 2007 | 2 CommentsTweet Ok don’t ask how I tripped over this one. Talk about mega local egg on local face be careful with those CVs when making changes – quick tip make... -
Bad news – the right and wrong way to deliver it…..
Posted on May 17, 2007 | No CommentsTweet Blogs are sometimes there for a bit of a rant yes? Just a little rant about the modern day etiquette of delivering bad news via text messages or email... -
Project Management Favorite Sayings – what are yours?
Posted on May 14, 2007 | 1 CommentTweet I am pulling together a collection of the various sayings, cliches, metaphors and understatements and how they are used in relation to projects and what they are trying to... -
OGC – Gateway review information is not publically available!
Posted on April 27, 2007 | No CommentsTweet I can ‘t believe what I have just read in Computing (26/4/2007) . The OGC Gateway review data is not available, the output from the extensive reviews are not... -
PRINCE2™ – Still top of the charts
Posted on March 9, 2007 | No CommentsTweet A recent survey by Arras People, the Project Management Recruitment Specialists received responses from 1,225 permanent and contract Programme and Project Professionals during January 2007. Once again it showed... -
Red Nose Careers Clinic
Posted on March 7, 2007 | No CommentsTweet If anyone is interested in getting some top tips on their project management CV or advice on their career we’re hosting a special event in aid of Comic Relief.... -
Project Management Survey 2007 highlights
Posted on March 6, 2007 | No CommentsTweet Huge rise in professionalism Money isn’t everything! Accreditation value questioned! Wow! Finally got there and have pulled together what will hopefully be seen as a useful snapshot of the... -
PMO People
Posted on March 2, 2007 | No CommentsTweet An opportunity to spend sometime thinking about your own skills and experience if you work within a project support role (anything from project administrator to PMO Manager) The PPSOSIG... -
Understanding and Capitalizing on OPM3 – Maturity Modelling
Posted on February 28, 2007 | No CommentsTweet This is an area I know very little about. I was fascinated by this article written about OPM3 (Organizational Project Management Maturity Model). My question is how do busy... -
a camel and not the racehorse that we might try to produce….
Posted on February 13, 2007 | No CommentsTweet From today’s Daily Telegraph …..‘£20bn NHS computer system ‘doomed to fail’ A small extract from the man at Fujitsu – you can see I am right projects and animals!... -
Network Express – Speed Dating for Business.
Posted on February 2, 2007 | No CommentsTweet Out of interest as much as anything I booked on our local chamber‘s “speed networking ” event held at The Silsoe Conference Centre , part of the University of... -
VM – Value Management and PM “Project Management – Cost Savings & More for your Money & Time”
Posted on January 24, 2007 | 5 CommentsTweet “‘Value’ is derived as the ‘Function over the Whole Life Cost’” Last night I attended a local meeting of the Association of Project Management, East of England Branch. The... -
RACI and VS – something I have not seen used this way before
Posted on January 11, 2007 | No CommentsTweet I have just been reviewing a number of Job Specifications for Project Managers and Business Analysts for a major phone distributor. One of the nice to haves is experience... -
The London 2012 Olympics – only 2033 days to go
Posted on January 2, 2007 | No CommentsTweet In my experience projects become late 1 day at a time so counting days is a good focuser for all. I don’t know about you I can relax about...
