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4 Ways AI is Transforming How We Manage Projects

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Project management is more than a simple planning of phases. It is an extremely dynamic function. Companies hire project managers to provide insight, carry out analyses, and make decisions based on their findings. Incidentally, this is exactly what most AI solutions are designed for. About 81% of project managers that participated in the Pulse of […]

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Everything You Need to Know About Learning Management Systems

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As anyone who ever made a conscious effort to learn something knows, learning is a difficult process. Throughout history, people have always searched for ways to make learning convenient. And what they found is that learning tools can mean the difference between knowledge and ignorance. A learning management system (LMS) is the latest entry in […]

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Instilling Innovation Through Leadership With Learning and Development Training

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Recent research has indicated the importance of Learning and Development (L&D) training in cultivating a sustainable and effective workplace culture that helps leaders instil cultures of innovation in their teams. As a project leader or project manager, driving your team to achieve growth and innovation simultaneously is at first glance, a convoluted process. The contemporary […]

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All I need is a PPM tool and a PMO, right?

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All of us work in organisations that have resources deployed to deliver our mission – be that delivering construction projects, developing software, providing education services – all sorts. Some are delivered as services, some as projects, some as assets or products. None of us can stand still. We are all driven to do more with […]

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Challenge of Change – What it means to be a Project or Programme Manager these days

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Expected to deliver more with less, responsible for multiple change initiatives simultaneously, internal and external pressures – this is what the world of the project or programme manager(PPM) looks like these days. But it’s not all bleak as there are also increasing opportunities out there. AXELOS has recently published its latest PPM Benchmarking Report 2019 […]

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5 Reasons Project Managers Need To Know Excel

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<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6073" src="https://www.projectaccelerator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Excel-for-project-managers-300×133.jpg" alt="Excel for project managers” width=”300″ height=”133″ /> I’m not going to give some long-winded introduction on Excel, we are all professionals, we all open up Excel files and we get its importance in an organisation. Yet, the PM world still scoffs at it, so I’m going to rebut that notion […]

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Limber up: Are Project Managers getting Agile?

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It can be tough to keep up with buzzwords in the project management world: in recent years we have seen ‘scrum teams’ using ‘game theory’ tactics to play ‘zero sum games’. A phrase that has risen to prominence recently is Agile. Familiar to those working in IT, the term is growing in popularity in a […]

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6 benefits of earning a PMP qualification

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When we’re in school, the path forward is clear. Participate in lessons, study for exams, make an effort on your projects.   However, when it comes to our career, the path forward can be ambiguous. In this article, I will go over one of the paths you can take as a project manager to propel […]

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How to Effectively Manage a Remote Team

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Working remotely is slowly becoming the norm in workforces across the UK and around the world. In fact, the Trade Union Congress (TUC) predicts that by 2020, 50% of the UK’s workforce will be working remotely.  As a project manager, you have to prepare for your company bringing in more remote working. After all, managing […]

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How do I become a Project Manager?

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Because the terms “project” and “project manager” are open to so many different interpretations, employers are naturally wary of candidates who confidently call themselves project managers, while being unable to produce any evidence that they are indeed project professionals. This is why most project organisations, businesses and public sector programmes, specify project qualifications as a […]