Paul Naybour

Paul is a project management consultant and account manager with particular expertise in the analysis, process development, and implementation of change program management, risk management, earned value management, and bespoke project management training development and delivery. Paul is the Business Development Director of the company Parallel Project Training

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RAG Status Reporting with LightningReports

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Sometimes it is very strange things happen in patterns. A few weeks ago was talking to one of my clients about status reporting and the use of traffic lights. Initial conversation was about how difficult it is to decide when to make a project RED. She was saying the project managers generally don\’t like moving into […]

What happens when a project goes red?

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I\’ve previously blogged about the use of RAG reporting for project status. This an effective way of highlighting the project status to senior managers using Red, Amber and Green assigns for the status the project. However given that 70% of projects failed to achieve the objectives then we can expect most projects to go through […]

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GrowthAccelerator Leadership & Management Grants

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Eligible companies that are accepted onto GrowthAccelerator (now part of the Business Growth Service) are able to access £2,000 of match-funded training grants towards the leadership and management training of eligible senior managers within the business. This “Leadership & Management” grant is available to small and medium businesses with an annual turnover of less than […]

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How to use RAG Status Reporting For your Project?

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Many projects and programmes use RAG status reporting but what are the advantages and disadvantages of using Red, Amber, Green reporting. Can we trust project and programme managers to be honest when using RAG reporting for their projects? What do we mean when a project has a red status? How should senior managers respond when […]

Which Project Management Qualification is Right for me?

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Video Transcript Many people ask us which would be the best project management qualification for me. The answer depends on your particular circumstance and where you want to go with your career as a project manager. To get you going in this video, we review the main qualifications, PMP, PRINCE2 and the APM project management […]

Three out of Four Nuclear Reactors Under Construction Around the Globe are Behind Schedule

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Chronic Delays Making Already Extremely Expensive Power Source Even More Costly: At Least 49 Out of 66 Reactor Projects Now Running Behind Schedule, Including All 5 in U.S. and Most in China. Contrary to what is often claimed in the United States by proponents of nuclear power, the reality is that other nations around the […]

Vodafone, EE and Carphone Warehouse are looking to acquire Phones 4U stores,

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Yesterday Phones 4U was in administration, because EE had canceled contracts today is seem that those same organisations that cancelled the contracts are circling to pick over the remains.  Professor Andre Spicer, Cass Business School: “Vodafone and EE have come out as winners. They have eliminated a competitor in retail, gained some plum locations and paid […]

Microsoft Project Training from Parallel Project

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Parallel Project Training is now collaborating with Acuity Training to bring their clients Microsoft Project Training of the highest quality. But first, an explanation of what Microsoft Project is. What is Microsoft Project? Microsoft Project is one of the most popular and common tools used for project scheduling. Its popularity lies in the fact that […]

Turner and Townsend Project Management Training Produces Impressive Results

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Turner and Townsend is one of the most known construction and program management consultancy in the world and in 2012, they embarked on an e-learning project management program. This program enabled Turner and Townsend professionals in project management for achieving international status with APM (Association for Project Management) qualifications. The aim was to increase and […]

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Project Management Framework Goes Open Source with the Praxis Framework

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The Praxis Framework is a significant new development in the field of project, programme and portfolio (P3) management and launches on the 1st May 2014. Until now practitioners have used bodies of knowledge, methodologies, competency frameworks and capability maturity models from different sources that use different taxonomies and terminologies. This has meant that anyone wishing […]