Paul Naybour
Written Articles
What is meant by a complex project? The world is full of different opinions about what we mean when we talk about complex projects. Is complexity the same as complicated? By complex do we just mean a large project, one which is geographically distributed or using complex technology? Or are these mega projects, in fact, […]
I have been running this project management news website for over 10 years now, the domain was registered in 2008. Today we have 570 posts, which is an average of once a week for each week in those ten years. Over the years we have seen many changes. Why Project Accelerator? The site started as […]
This week Parallel’s Matt Bolton and Jan Underdown discussed the roles in the 7th edition of the Body of Knowlege from the Association for Project Management. This includes the new role of the Product Owner. The role of the product owner is to represent the views of the users in the project. They bring the […]
So this week, we did our second live stream. This time John Bolton and I discussed linear, iterative and hybrid lifecycles. It’s a new topic in the 7th editions of the APM Body of Knowledge and it’s now also part of the APM PMQ syllabus. Linear lifecycles have been around for many years; they envisage […]
WELCOME TO OUR FIRST GO LIVE ON THE APM BOK7. Always keen to innovate and try new thing today, Parallel Project Training, launched their first live stream. This is the first of many hosted by Matt Bolton. The first Livestream covered changes and updates in the seventh edition of the Association for Project Management Body […]
A recent study showed that 26% of employees would leave their current jobs for a 5% pay raise. This says volumes about the current state of motivation in the modern workplace and is especially concerning when businesses now depend upon teams to get critical work done more than ever. Another interesting study from the Norwegian […]
With so many corporate projects of all different types failing to live up to initial expectations you might wonder if any project could ever be considered successful when compared against the original aims and expectations. At the start of a project there is usually a very clear idea of what should be achieved by the […]
Global innovation and transformation consultancy PA Consulting (PA) today announces that 10 of its employees have been awarded with Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) status making them some of the first of their kind in the world. The ChPP standard is a professional benchmark exclusively awarded by the Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered body […]
Many problems on projects are the direct result of poorly defined roles and responsibilities. But vagueness over roles can also result in turf wars and hostility when more than one individual believes they have control over an area of project activity. For organisations using the PRINCE2 methodology, which is inherently flexible, it’s important to […]
Today the Association for Project Management opened the register for Chartered Project Professional’s. It’s been a long wait. The first post on the topic was way back in 2011 when, the late, Mike Nichols, announced a vision for a world in which every project succeeds at the APM Project Management Awards. Seven years later Mike would have been proud to see his […]