Earlier this year Arras People released their annual project management benchmark report for the UK project management market. Following on from the 2013 Project Management Benchmark Report (PMBR) they are now conducting a short survey to look in more detail at some of the recruitment challenges that organisations face when selecting Project Management practitioners for […]
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The Project Management Institute are hosting their first live project management careers and job chat via Twitter on Monday 5th August 2.30pm BST. PM Network magazine’s project management career columnist, and director of program and project management recruitment at Arras People in London, England — will host a Twitter tweet chat on 5 August 2013
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Here is a lesson I learned when doing a project review. I guess I knew it all along but it was certainly brought home to me when I did the review. A large public corporation had just finished a project. It had been difficult to say the least. It was well over budget and time.
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Having worked in project management for many years and also involved in delivering training courses for project managers, there are lots of examples of how applying the right approach has proven successful. Here is one relating to risk management. In a major company wide project to implement a new system, we spent several weeks doing
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A lesson I learned many years ago from a very experienced project manager related to managing the changes in a project. The project was nearing completion but was over budget and over time. I was not managing the project. It was being managed by a colleague from the same company I was working with at
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Here is another lesson I learned from a real life project. This one relates to managing issues. On one occasion I was called in to look at a struggling project. The project had about 100 staff but seemed to be going around in circles. Progress had slowed if not stopped. The first task was to
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What is the problem the project is trying to solve? Think about your current project. Can you answer that question? Why is it even important? Every project is trying to solve a problem. The problem may be: We cannot cross a river There is an opportunity to claim a niche market Our software is no
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Leadership in project management is ranked as the top competency for a project management professional today*. The challenge our industry now faces is just how project leadership can be defined, assessed and measured in a meaningful way. Today Arras People launched a pilot project with Goldsmiths College, London and Global Project Leaders Ltd to find
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We are a small but rapidly growing project management training provider, offering APM, PRINCE2 and PMP courses, based in Reading. To support our future growth we are seeking a self employed individual or organisation to provide in-bound sales support service to help us convert to sales lead generated by our website. We generate most of our
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