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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 […]
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 […]
The answer as to whether machine learning and artificial intelligence will replace various roles in the workplace is one contingent on several very big factors; most notably the nature of the work in question and the relative sophistication of AI in the coming years and decades. For some aspects of project management there is […]
Mega-projects, better known as large-investment, complex and lengthy projects, bank on everything under the sun, from the right manpower to the right machinery and equipment. They are projects that carry risks associated with lengthy durations, frequent scope changes and cost overruns. Given that stakeholders invest huge sums of money in the project, project managers can’t […]
A new role emerges at organizations where technology is at the core of products. As more organizations seek to build the latest and greatest tech advances, many of them are seeking a new type of program manager: a technical program manager (TPM). Though this is a relatively recent role in the tech industry, TPMs have […]
Implementing changes internally within an organisation takes work. People are the main reason for and behind the change. Resource management is essential for businesses to meet existing and future needs. It is far more effective to assign resources with the right skills and availability to the right type of work. Broadly speaking, resource management allows […]
All size of projects, even the smallest, littlest projects have stakeholders. Most management styles, systems, approaches and methodologies have to involve a stakeholder analysis process for this reason. Stakeholder management is so important in fact, that there are key principles involved in the process of managing stakeholders so that project managers have guidelines to follow […]
IT is the major component of most company-wide initiatives. The changes made to the IT structure directly affect other information systems like marketing and sales due to their dependence on innovative technology. Global project management leaders are starting to regroup their IT strategy in order to successfully deliver on their business strategy. Consequently, several organisations […]
The word risk has an inherently negative connotation to it. But what most folk don’t realise, is that anticipating risks is a sign of proactive management. A positive spin on risk can alert you to alternatives, create better opportunities, justify contingency plans and ultimately win you more business. Every invention falling under the Information […]
When it comes to dealing with change there exists a vast variety of different theories and philosophies on the subject. Many of these draw from difference disciplines including behavioural science, psychology and even sociology all the way over to systems thinking and engineering. The basic principle that underlies the concept is that change does not […]