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Perspectives on time!

Have you ever wondered why some people are always late for meetings or why some people get upset when you are late but others don’t worry too much?? The chances are you are dealing with people who see time differently. For some, time flows from the future into the present and on to the past […]

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project management and productivity

Defining Productivity through the Prism of Project Management

Embedding a project management policy in an organization is the first of many steps that will help you leverage the immense potential of project management for your business. The choice of the right methodology, project manager and project management software, and impressing upon employees the need to scrutinize, align, evaluate and monitor their activities within

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The power of Happiness

Everyone talks about motivation, work-life balance and developing a productive team, only a few realise the importance of ‘happiness’ within this equation. This post will look at a measureable change in team performance created by a change in emphasis by ‘management’ to bring a sense of fun back into a very seriously fought competition. As

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Projects fail for the same reasons fad diets fail – it’s simple but not easy!

With depressing regularity, someone in a magazine or a social media site will ask “What are the top reasons why projects fail?” Unsurprisingly, such surveys come up with the same old answers time after time. The first example I ever found was from an IPMA conference in 1972, so we’ve been identifying the same reasons

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Praxis Framework

Project Management Framework Goes Open Source with the Praxis Framework

The Praxis Framework is a significant new development in the field of project, programme and portfolio (P3) management and launches on the 1st May 2014. Until now practitioners have used bodies of knowledge, methodologies, competency frameworks and capability maturity models from different sources that use different taxonomies and terminologies. This has meant that anyone wishing

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