Project Management Tipoffs - 2008
With Special Guests: Looking Ahead, Looking Behind - December 2008
- Professionalism, Confidence Highlight An Interesting 2009 For PPSO organisations
- Despite Some Reasons For Optimism, 2009 Is Going To Be A Difficult Year
- PSO & PMO: What Is The Difference Between These Renowned Office Methodologies?
- Economy That Shattered Our Assumptions Creates Uncertain Management Future
- Suggested Readings and Links
A Time For Change: Change Management - November 2008
- Tools and Techniques: "People don't resist change. They resist being changed!"
- The Biggest Pitfall of Poor Communication: Are You Getting the Message Across?
- So this one time, at my old job...' A Look at Change Through a Trip Down Memory Lane
- Change Project Manager? Exactly!
- Suggested Readings and Links
Colourful in Autumn - October 2008
- Greener Pastures: A Primer to Becoming an Effective Contract Project Manager
- On Red Alert: The Best Ways and Manners to Conduct Professional Recruitment
- It Was All Yellow: Getting Ahead of the Game with the Right Amount of Caution
- Feeling a Little Rusty? Take a Look at a Project Management Careers Clinic
- Green Around the Ears: Make Your Way Through the Recruitment Maze
- RAG Method: Does Red - Amber - Green Show Only a Pretty Picture or Meaningful Control
- Suggested Readings and Links
Failure in Project Management - September 2008
- London 2012: It's All a Matter of Perception...and Proboscidean Considerations
- Does high profile PM failure mean the whole industry needs to suffer?
- One Short Trip to Coventry Equals a New Perspective on PPSOs
- Make Public Sector Project Success Public
- Project Manager - What do the public expect?
- Suggested Readings and Links
A Case of the R's - August 2008
- Reflection - Powerful, Progressive Ways to Take Your Career Forward
- Re-energise - Give Yourself and Your Project a Proper Workout!
- Re-Invent - Starting on a Road to Bettering Yourself After Some Needed Objectivety
- Ramp it Up - Turning Ideas of Renewal Into Real Time Energy and Production
- Suggested Readings and Links
Economic Woes and Project Management - July 2008
- Arras as Nostradamus - A Look Into This Year's Predictions
- Changing the Climate of a Downward Business Cycle
- Monthly List - Top Ten Frugality Tips
- Defending Your Project From a Shut Down
- Headcount Freeze: How to Get Through It
Summer Holiday Special - June 2008
- How to use your holiday effectively
- A List of Ways to Create an Effective Holiday
- Using Your Skills to Turn a Working Holiday into a Holiday Home
- Handing Over Responsibility
- The Busman's Holiday
- Books, links and Arras People updates
Programme Management From the Ground Up - May 2008
- Defining Programme Management effectively
- An atypical look at Programmes
- Paradise by the Programme Function Light - A Pyramid Look at Programmes
- Building the right Programme Manager profile
- Books, links and Arras People updates
The Work/Life Balance - April 2008
- Work/Life Balance: Heaven or Hell?
- Working to live -vs- Living to Work
- In sickness or in wealth: The sacrifices you could be making
- Achieving happiness through attitude and balance
- Books and links for background on work/life balance
Project Management and Construction - February 2008
- Work/Life Balance in the UK Project Management Industry
- Construction Sector - Skills Shortages
- One Candidate's Experience of Gaining Employment in the Construction Industry
Predictions for 2008: January 2008
- Predictions for 2008 in project management from contributors in the field
- The Third Sector and Project Management - one sector to keep an eye on for 2008
- Arras People Survey 2008 – Current Outlook