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- Dan Strayer: Quite so, Alan. Patrick has shown himself to be thorough and complete in his assessment, which you have to love and admire. We look...
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- kamal: Dan, I like your perspective and predictions – intuition is more what I would call it since this is driven by your experiences and...
- Ceska: Though I found some topics were over simplifed I found the book spot on. Many of the ideas expessed in the book I could closely relate to as...
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Archive for January, 2010
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Career Development: Social Media and the Five Tools for the Professional Job Hunter
Posted on January 29, 2010 | No CommentsTweet “You need to stand out from the crowd if you’re going to find your ideal job”. How many times have you heard this over the last few months? The... -
Guest Blogger – Completing a Feasibility Study
Posted on January 28, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet Is your project feasible? The best way to find out whether your project is feasible is to complete a Feasibility Study. This process helps you gain confidence that the... -
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,... -
Final chance to have your say
Posted on January 26, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet No doubt over the last few weeks you have been hearing buzz around the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Report. Arras have been trying to get the views of project... -
The Survey For Project Managers To Close Wednesday
Posted on January 25, 2010 | No CommentsTweet We’ve crossed the 90-minute mark for the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Survey. Two days of extra time will be added on to the clock. The leading UK survey of trends,... -
Guest Blogger – Read It Again
Posted on January 22, 2010 | 3 CommentsTweet I admit it. I have kept almost every textbook from my college years. There were a scant few that didn’t quite make the cut, but most have stood the... -
Book Review: The Program Management Office Advantage
Posted on January 21, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet PMO (Programme Management Office) is still relatively new in the field of programme and project management, a browse through the business books tell us that it’s an area which... -
The latest thinking in Project Management
Posted on January 20, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Last Year was a first for Arras People, attending the hugely successful BPUG (Best Practice User Group) International Congress. Experienced speakers discussed challenges faced in their organizations during the... -
Guest Blogger – Project Management the Teenage Years
Posted on January 19, 2010 | No CommentsWhat will be the project management trends in the teens? They say the past is no predictor of the future but what will be the up and coming trends for the teens 1) The fallout from the credit crunch and severely reduced public spending lead to a severe reduction in the demand for project management and a decade of cost cutting and cancelled projects? 2) Will the increasing pressure for change lead to an increasing demand for truly professional project managers, maybe (or maybe not) linked to chartered status? 3) Will pressure for consistency continue with consolidation between the different methodologies (PRINCE2, APM, PMP)? 4) Will new social media tools such as Google Wave help us organise the mass of information generated by projects using meta tags and search tool in the same way Google Search Engine made sense of the web. Or (5) all of the above? VOTE NOW -
Monday Morning Links – 18th January 2010
Posted on January 18, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet Five for Linking: Soma Bhattacharya of Stepping Into PM interviews Peter Taylor about The Lazy Project Manager, concluding the laziness ‘is not a bad thing’ - http://www.steppingintopm.com/2010/01/interview-with-lazy-pm.html Jo Ann Sweeney of Sweeney... -
Developing your Skills for Successful Projects @ APM
Posted on January 15, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Title: Developing your Skills for Successful Projects Location: Aberdeen, Hilton Treetops Hotel Link out: Click here Description: APM’s Aberdeen Chapter’s one day conference includes CV workshop from Arras People... -
Guest Blogger – Are you working too hard as a Project Manager to be successful?
Posted on January 15, 2010 | No CommentsTweet “Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” - Robert Heinlein The 2009 Standish Group report shows more projects... -
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... -
Does Programme & Project Management have a “Long Hours” Culture?
Posted on January 13, 2010 | 4 CommentsTweet A recently published report from the TUC led with the headline that UK workers are giving away £27 billion of unpaid overtime a figure that has increased significantly since... -
Project Management Careers Advice with Guardian Careers
Posted on January 12, 2010 | 1 CommentTweet The project management marketplace is certainly an interesting one as we head into 2010. I receive many questions from job-seekers everyday; I’m facing redundancy and I want to make... -
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... -
Social Media Survey Needs Your Input
Posted on January 8, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Cheers to colleague Lindsay Scott for pointing this out to me earlier… Surveys have graced the posts here at the Camel for many weeks now, as we are all too... -
Permanent placements in Dec 09 UP whilst one in three workers ‘ready for change’!
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Personneltoday.com are reporting that according to a recent study by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), One in three UK workers would leave their existing job if they could! A staggering 33% of... -
Public sector pay racing ahead in the recession?
Posted on January 6, 2010 | No CommentsTweet According to a report in the Sunday Times published on Sunday 3rd January 2010 “Public sector workers earn 7% more on average than their peers in the private sector... -
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... -
Q: What is the Project Manager’s New Year’s Resolution?
Posted on January 4, 2010 | No CommentsTweet A: Provide his/her colleagues with the most accurate reading of the project management climate in 2010. Q: How can one do this? A: Take the 2010 Project Management Benchmark Survey... -
PPSOSIG Spring Conference
Posted on January 3, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Title: PPSOSIG Spring Conference Location: Milton Keynes Link out: Click here Description: The PPSO Competence and Competencies – High Level Performance Conference will provide the opportunity for you to... -
PPSOSIG:London – Free Event for PPSOSIG Members
Posted on January 2, 2010 | No CommentsTweet Title: PPSOSIG:London Location: Central London Link out: Click here Description: The PPSOSIG’s first free local event for members in London Start Time: 16:00 Date: 2010-02-25 End Time: 18:30
