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Michelle Symonds spent the first part of her career working in IT and IT Project Management in the oil industry and investment banking on complex global projects involving the management of outsourced project teams. She now runs a digital marketing company with particular expertise in SEO.

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A Quick PMP Certification Checklist

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The PMP certification is one of the biggest challenges faced by project managers in their career. It is the gold standard for project management professionals, and there are more than 750,000 certified project managers worldwide. To maintain certification, project managers must continue to meet professional development requirements.   Although it can be a lot of […]

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Project Management History – A Visual Illustration On How Far It’s Come

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If project management is the overseeing of any venture with the aim of creating something unique or providing excellent service, then we have all been project managers at certain points in our life; of course, without the official title. At certain times, we have all found ourselves overseeing some form of activity, paying attention to […]

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APM Project Fundamentals Podcast – Project Context

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This podcast looks at project context or environment – this is where the project sits within an organisation and in the wider world and what factors  affect the project. For example – imagine the organisation you work at is an electronics company –all projects follow a theme that is well understood and familiar. However, in […]

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APM project Fundamentals Podcast – Project Roles

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Everybody should have a clear understand of the different project roles because otherwise there could be confusion which can cause friction or chaos. This podcast from the Parallel Project Training\’s APM Project Fundamentals distance learning course looks at the typical roles in a project.  

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APM Project Fundamentals Podcast: Programme Management and Portfolio Management

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Listen to one of the APM Project Fundamentals Podcasts from Parallel Project Training This podcasts looks at Programme Management and Portfolio Management and the differences between them.     There are 3 terms projects, programmes and portfolios and it can be a little confusing as to why we have them all. Programmes are simply a […]

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APM Project Fundamentals Podcast – Project Lifecycle

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Why do we have a project lifecycle? Plants and animals have a lifecycle – they are born, live and die in the simplest sense so projects are the same. In this podcast we look in more detail at the project lifecycle.     We break the project into a number of stages in the lifecycle […]

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APM Project Fundamentals Qualification – Introduction Podcast

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Listen to the first of the APM Project Fundamentals Podcasts from Parallel Project Training     This training course is targeted at people who want to know the basics of project management –people just starting out in their career who want to know the language and principles of project management. Maybe they already run a […]

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APM Project Fundamentals: Starting Your Journey in Project Management

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As a new project manager your first projects can be challenging without the necessary processes, methods, knowledge, skills, tools and experience. However, there is a training course that could be just right for you; the APM Project Fundamentals Course provides a flexible way to apply tried and tested project management techniques to your projects. It […]

Making Testing an Integral Part of a Project

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There are so many products, processes and services that are simply not well-designed and do not quite work as they should. Some are not even fit for purpose. This could be anything from a small electrical item such as a kettle that leaks to a major software system that cost millions but fails to resolve […]

Successful Projects Need A Project Management Framework

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There are three main sections to a Project Management Framework, which are designed to help the project manager complete a project successfully. The first of these is what we fundamentally understand as project management, and this along with the other two parts are described below. But if you have a good project management environment why […]