The National Audit Office has identified skills shortages in central government as a major source of project failure. It identified that one quarter of programme and project management roles are held by people who are not specialists in these areas. The report highlights the need for professionalism in project management because ineffective skills development can […]
Having my first book ‘The Lazy Project Manager’ published by Infinite Ideas changed my professional life. I had ambitions to widen my audience and to get on to the international speaking circuit. It was only once I had a book to support and promote me that I began to be noticed. A book lends gravitas and
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In order to improve both productivity and work/life balance the management strategy ROWE (Results Only Work Environment) was devised. But does it work in a complex project environment? The fundamental basis of the ROWE (Results Only Work Environment) approach is that employees are rewarded for the results they achieve rather than the hours worked. Employees
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Updated: 15th September 2020 For many of us there comes a day when we toy with the thought of starting a small business; work stress and failed professional objectives can typically leave us thirsting for autonomy and starting a small enterprise seems to be the perfect solution. But for many who are thinking of starting
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Software testing is very similar in concept to stress testing. Stress testing is the test conducted to understand the reliability and the performance eon the object/material or machine under extreme pressure. After being subjected to above normal capacity, or a breaking point, the changes and the results are noted. In case of this testing, the
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Any activity that has already been given the name of “Project” is likely to involve considerable amounts of resources, whether that is time, people, money or all three. So it is fairly obvious that whoever has authorised the project will want to be certain that it delivers what is expected, that it meets the business
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