Paul Naybour
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In the midst of recession and poor economic outlook, companies always endeavour to control costs, whilst revenues remain flat. Unsurprisingly, support departments are one of the first casualties of the CFO’s cost rationalization drive. During this mayhem, PMOs struggle to evade the cost cutting knife and are forced to cut back resources and scale down […]
The G20 has acknowledged that in order to address hampered and depressed growth in Europe, America, and the developing world, investments should be made in infrastructure projects. They claim that “The lack of infrastructure dramatically hampers the growth potential in many developing countries,” and believe that addressing this challenge without delay is the best way […]
I am writing a short article for Project Magazine on the use of social media for communicating lessons learned in project management. For example the use of project blogs and forums on a company intranet to communicate and share lessons learned. I am looking for a couple of case studies to feature in the article. […]
Paul Naybour and John Bolton, Parallel Project Training The social media revolution The last ten years have see an explosion in social media with an estimated 307.4million unique visitors to social network sites in December 2009, an increase on 82% on the previous year (Nielsen Company, 2010). Many dozens of sites exist but the most […]
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Who is the risk owner? In the post credit crunch era will anyone believe risk management again? Risk management has gone down the road of building ever more complex and sophisticated databases of project risk. Each risk is categorised and analysed to death. Do we run the risk of missing the wood for the trees? […]
With the APM re-writing the Body of Knowledge being extended to cover project, programme and portfolio management can we expect different approaches to risk management each or will the same process apply to each level in the same way. What is the project risk management process? The project risk management process is well known. With initiate the […]
Public infrastructure refers to community water and wastewater systems, drainage systems, roads and bridges, railways, electrical utility grids, telecommunications networks, or any other physical structure or service needed for the functional operation of a business, economy or society. In the most basic sense, populations cannot be sustained without adequate infrastructure. In terms of the economy, […]
Career advancement is a dream worth pursuing, and it can become a reality by becoming a Certified Project Manager. Those who obtain project management training can look forward to career advancement and an increase in salary according to both the Project Management Institute and the American Academy of Project Management. This career choice has become […]
The pandemic has caused millions of businesses to rethink the size and shape of their workforce and a potential workforce restructure – and we’re not out of the woods yet. If you’re called upon to plan a restructuring project, while it’s much like managing any other project in some respects, there are a few aspects […]