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The pace of change is picking up as the APM works towards chartered status.

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Update 13 July 2021: The APM project professional qualifications now comprise a 4 step approach to chartered project professional status: APM PFQ – Project Fundamentals Qualification APM PMQ – Project Management Qualification APM PPQ – Project Professional Qualification APM ChPP – Chartered Project Professional It is like watching a large animal come out to hibernation; […]

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Learning from failed Project Managers

How the experience of failed project managers could be the key to developing a great one?

Careers, Insights, Leadership, Programme Management

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Project Managers are the Ultimate Demon Hunters – How to Combat Project Nightmares

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Year-round, all projects are filled with boogeymen and ghost stories regardless of scope, industry, or timeline. While you may imagine the perils and dangers that await, it’s impossible to predict every twist and turn, creeping deadline and shape-shifting priorities you’ll encounter. To successfully navigate the project management haunted house, the best project managers have learned

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plug your pm skills gap

Five compelling reasons to plug your Project Management skills gap

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In the ever changing, lightning speed IT world, effective Project Management delivers operational excellence. As every company is now, in some way, an IT operation IT Project management is something that every company needs. It is, however, something that many companies do not have. Not completely. Do you find IT Project Delivery a challenge? A

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improving your business

Can we manage project resources?

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The puzzle of human resource management…   Companies are evolving in a fast-changing environment. Organizations are forced to adapt and becoming more flexible. Resources, whether people, materials or finances are essential to project survival and success. But resources are limited. A recent KPMG study showed that a third of failed projects face resource availability problems.

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How To Create Project Management Luck

When IT Project Management processes alone won’t deliver, you need luck – three ways you can create your own luck!

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Have you ever toiled with a cursed IT Project? Imagine your server not arriving because there is a man standing on a gantry on the M1, shutting it for 28 hours. Imagine your kit arrives with American plugs. Imagine your lead architect getting stuck in Iceland because of a volcano erupting. Sometimes I wonder how

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Stoneseed's Andrew Buzton accepts award from sponsor Chris Darlington of Mazars

Project Management Specalists Stoneseed Named Nottinghamshire Business of the Year

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    Project Management service providers Stoneseed win two awards, Nottinghamshire Business of the Year and Nottinghamshire Small Business of the Year award. Stoneseed Ltd, an independent provider of IT Project Management Services is delighted to be awarded the East Midlands Chamber’s Nottinghamshire Business of the Year. The Business of the Year, sponsored by Mazars, rewards

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MOTIVATION- WHY PRAISE PAYS

A promotion is nice, a bonus is quickly squandered, in IT Project Management, it’s praise that pays

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When motivating IT Project Management team members, praise, gratitude and recognition for ‘a job well done’ can be as powerful as a raise, a bonus or a promotion. If not more so. Think about it yourself. Your monthly salary is what you’ve earned in return for your services – that’s what’s owed to you! Nice

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