Issue 35 /
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

Issue 34 /
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!

• 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

• London 2012: A Matter of PM Perception
• Does high profile PM failure mean the whole industry needs to suffer?
• Off to Coventry For a Look at PPSOs
• Make Public Sector Project Success Public
• Project Manager - What Do the Public Expect?

• 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 Objectivity
• Ramp it Up - Turning Ideas of Renewal Into Real Time Energy and Production

• 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

• 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

• 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

Issue 27 /
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

• Work /
  Life Balance in the UK Project Management Industry
• Construction Sector - Skills Shortages
• One Candidate's Experience of Gaining Employment in the Construction Industry
• The chance to win £25 voucher by taking part in our construction song quiz

• 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

• Christmas Roundup of 2007
• Project Management Survey 2008

• Project Management Professional Bodies - When was the last time you contributed to the professional body you're a member of?
  
• Tradeshow, Conference, Seminar, Workshop............. With “lack of time” being cited as one of the biggest reasons professionals don’t attend external organisation events, once you find time you want to spend it productively.
  
• Professional Body Conference vs. Trade Show?
  
• You Are Not Alone - The Value of Interest Groups, Conferences and Seminars
  
• Specialist Focus Needed - Gaining Value from Specialist Interest Groups (SIGs)

• Making the Change - Making the Switch from Permanent Employment to Contractor - and vice versa.
• Is the grass always greener on the other side?
• Whatever your work status - an interim contractor or full time employee - each may envy the other’s position!
• Which is Best - Contract or Employee?
  
• How Do I Become a Contractor? - The vast majority of project managers we meet have been at one time a full time employee. As an employee, they have taken the contractor route usually after working along side contactors and being impressed by the earning power and perhaps the romantic idea of working when they want.
• CV Writing Services - God Send or Rip Off?
  

• Attitude tops the poll!
  
• Communication, communication, communication
  
• Your thoughts - what do the UK's Project Managers think about the softer skills they possess?
  
• PRINCE2 meets the grumpy old man
  

• Project Management Soft Skills - An article looking at the most important aspects of a project manager's softer skills
• Project Management - Science or Art Form?

• PRINCE2 is it good enough?
• Competency Based Interviewing
• Graduating into Project Management
• Tackling Managed Services Companies
• CV Spring Clean

• Project Management Interview Questions - Special Edition Issue

• Project Management Benchmark
• Age Discrimination
• Top Ten - Meetings
• Age of the Pen
• Project Risk Management

• Getting Started Late to Finish on Time
• Projects Get Late One Day at a Time - Or Do They?
• Last Minute Interview Preparations
• Benefits Realisation
• Job market Resources

• Our Christmas Edition featuring contributors from 2005;
• The Demand for Project Managers
• The Project Sponsor
• A Year in Hell's Kitchen
• People Power
• Effective Scope Management

• PRINCE2 - Back to Basics
• Common Mistakes
• Standing Out From the Crowd
• Why do PRINCE2 training?
• Working Time Directive

• The Programme and Project Support Office Survey 2005
• To Boldly Go Where No PPSO Has Gone Before
• The key to... project planning
• Did you negotiate the contract yourself?

• It lasts all night - can you?
• Mistakes - Clean Contract
• Skills shortage fever!
• Project Management Training
• Freshen up your skills

• The End is Nigh
• Back to the Future
• Objectives and the CV
• Roles and Responsibilities
• Six of the best

• I'm creative get me outta here!
• Project Management Mistakes #2
• What's in a Name - Reader Author
• ABC: D is for Drunkenness
• Practical Tip-Off - Intro to VBA

• I don't like Mondays!
• Amber is the real green
• The PPSO Outcome
• Project Manager Interviews - PRINCE2
• Practical Tip-Off - Intro to VBA
• C is for CV

• Revisiting the summer blues
• Project Manager Interview Questions
• B is for Bad Behaviour
• Creating the RAG Report
• Readers Query

• Summer Blues
• Resignation Help
• Project Management Clinic
• Sum of the parts
• Readers Query

• Transferable skills and the PM
• New position options
• Success factors in interviews
• Professional mentors
• ABC - A for Agency Regulations
• Are you a leader?
• Readers Query

• The results are in - project management qualifications
• Chartered professionals
• Black and white planning
• Qualifications Overview
• Skills frameworks

• When is a project not a project?
• The real project office toolbag
• Real business change
• The mensch test
• The PPSO SIG review
• Job hunting becomes a full-time job

• Further Project Manager Soft Skill Questions
• The Agency View of the World
• The employer view of qualifications
• Ageism in project management - are you too young?
• The dinner date scandal - communication & objectives
• PLUS - more great tip-offs

• Being Commercially Aware II
• Competency Based Interviews
• Get Ready for your project support interview
• Project Manager Soft Skills Interview Questions
• Getting the agency to come to you

• Being Commercially Aware
• Project Manager Interview - Get Prepared
• Writing that job specification
• The PSO Forum
• The Project Board