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Archive for June, 2009
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How Much is Too Much
Posted on June 30, 2009 | No CommentsTweet It is always tempting to learn a new skill or method and try to use it everywhere. There is the old saying about the boy who, after discovering a... -
Using P3M3 in Reality – Rabobank Presentation
Posted on June 29, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Last week I blogged about the Best Practice Showcase and one of the presentations from Rabobank. Rabobank’s Programme Office Manager gave an overview of their project management maturity (P3M3... -
Professional Project Management and Higher Education
Posted on June 26, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet Projects and project management are now seen as a destination of choice for aspiring professionals (obviously popularised on shows like the Apprentice). The higher education sector has responded with... -
Best Practice Showcase – June 09
Posted on June 24, 2009 | No CommentsTweet The Best Practice Showcase was held in Westminster on Tuesday this week, in case you’re not familar with the Best Practice events, they’re hosted by the OGC (Office of... -
Green Shoots Survey Enters Last Chance Saloon
Posted on June 24, 2009 | No CommentsTweet The “Green Shoots for Project Management Professionals” survey is on its last legs, pardner. Arras People will have the link to this sponsored survey open for only one more day,... -
Tipoffs is out!
Posted on June 22, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Well, we’ve done it again! Project Management Tipoffs, the newsletter from Arras People, is out and ready for download today. You can subscribe to this beacon of project management... -
PRINCE:2009 Twitter Hour – Live
Posted on June 19, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Thanks to everyone who took part in the PRINCE2:2009 Twitter Hour this morning. Andy Murray the lead author for the refresh, provided the answers to a number of PRINCE2... -
PRINCE2 2009 Q&A Twitter and Blog Hour
Posted on June 18, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet PRINCE2 2009 was launched this week in London and you have the opportunity to put any of your PRINCE2 2009 questions directly to Andy Murray, the lead author. By... -
Green Shoots for Project Management Professionals?
Posted on June 17, 2009 | No CommentsTweet As we approach the end of June and the half year, we thought it would be a great time to take the temperature of the Project Management community as... -
Project Management Article in Recruiter Forum
Posted on June 15, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Yesterdays Sunday Times featured an article on project management, it was aimed mostly at an audience who may be unfamilar with project management as a career choice. Entitled “Project... -
Addressing a Key Project Management & Recruitment Issue of the NHS
Posted on June 12, 2009 | No CommentsTweet For a public entity like the National Health Service, commercial functions have become a tricky and altogether untenable matter in the present setting. It’s a downward slope the NHS is not particularly keen... -
Brighton of the North – APM Meeting
Posted on June 11, 2009 | No CommentsTweet On Wednesday night I attended the APM North West branch meeting which was being held in Morecambe (seaside town, famous for its cockle pickers and comedy connections), specifically at... -
DWP Executive Support – 2 months in
Posted on June 11, 2009 | 3 CommentsTweet When Arras People started our collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and Jobcentre Plus on April 6th to provide free Jobsearch Support to unemployed project professionals,... -
So why do many government IT projects fail?
Posted on June 10, 2009 | 4 CommentsTweet Ian Watmore, Head of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills, was before the Public Accounts Committee last month and in a recent article from ComputerWeekly he talked openly... -
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 – Two Laws You Must Know
Posted on June 9, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Project Managers – especially younger staff – are equipped with education and a few years of experience from which many complex decisions must be derived. It is common for... -
Staffed by one person – me! Impacts on the PMO
Posted on June 8, 2009 | No CommentsTweet The headline was a quote from a recent survey in response to the question, “what pressures do you currently face in your PMO?” Interestingly this situation is pretty common... -
APM SIGs Knowledgeshare 2009
Posted on June 8, 2009 | No CommentsTweet Following on from last weeks article regarding the first in two day long events at the UCL run by the APM Special Interest Groups (SIGs), where the Governance and... -
New P3O Offering – The Online Respository
Posted on June 5, 2009 | No CommentsTweet The OGC has just released an online P3O repository of supporting tools and templates aimed at providing some flesh to the theory of the recent P3O book. P3O has... -
“To PRINCE2 or not to PRINCE2″ Outcome to the Debate
Posted on June 4, 2009 | 3 CommentsTweet Yesterday I travelled to the Aston University Business School to attend the ‘To PRINCE2 or not to PRINCE2’ debate which was hosted by the Centre for Project Management Practice.... -
It happens in other walks of life too!
Posted on June 4, 2009 | 2 CommentsTweet Just returned from a week in sunny Palma on the island of Majorca, a beautiful (and currently expensive) island with some great marinas and calas. We were fortunate enough... -
Advancing in Age Amid Economic Turmoil
Posted on June 3, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet The cold, hard facts of the economic frustrations were thrown a monkey wrench two months ago when I got an email from a gentleman in his 60s who worried... -
Visit to the Glass City
Posted on June 3, 2009 | 1 CommentTweet Just had a few hours out in Manchester visiting an e-commerce exhibition which was being hosted at the Hilton in Deansgate, apart from the exhibition we were lucky enough... -
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...
