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Can social networking help ALLEVIATE some of our project complexity issues?

Paul Naybour and John Bolton, Parallel Project Training The social media revolution The last ten years have see an explosion in social media with an estimated 307.4million unique visitors to social network sites in December 2009, an increase on 82% on the previous year (Nielsen Company, 2010). Many dozens of sites exist but the most […]

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How to Manage Project Meetings Effectively

Leadership

In order to be effective, all project meetings should have a clear objective stated in advance and a detailed agenda distributed to all attendees prior to the meeting. But there is more to a successful meeting than a stated purpose and a well thought out agenda? In setting both the objective and agenda, the project

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Project Risk Management

Leadership

Who is the risk owner? In the post credit crunch era will anyone believe risk management again? Risk management has gone down the road of building ever more complex and sophisticated databases of project risk. Each risk is categorised and analysed to death. Do we run the risk of missing the wood for the trees?

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Professional Project Management and Why it is Important

Leadership

Project management has existed since buildings were first erected or ships first built but it wasn’t known by that name in mankind’s early history. It was with the development of Gantt charts in the second decade of the 20th century that the role of managing a set of inter-related tasks to deliver an end-product to

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The challenges of managing remote team members

Insights, Leadership

More and more project managers are managing remote workers because businesses are becoming increasingly global. Companies want to tap into the best talent, which is why they will often outsource or hire teams based overseas. Recent research shows that 40% of remote job listings allow international remote work. While this presents many benefits, it can

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What is the difference between Project, Programme and Portfolio Risk Management

Leadership

With the APM re-writing the Body of Knowledge being extended to cover project, programme and portfolio management can we expect different approaches to risk management each or will the same process apply to each level in the same way. What is the project risk management process? The project risk management process is well known. With initiate the

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How To Motivate Others As A Project Manager

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When you are in charge of a team of people, one of the important things that you need to know how to do is motivate others. After all, you are going to be working with a different number of people. Some of these have different goals and different things that motivate them to reach these

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The Importance of Professional Project Management

APM, Leadership

Private companies and government organisations involved in running large projects, or many smaller projects at the same time, already recognise the benefits of formal project management but as the amount of experience and knowledge gleaned from such tasks has increased so project management has become more complex. And as it has become more complex so

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The difference between Complex and Complicated Projects

Leadership

What is meant by a complex project? The world is full of different opinions about what we mean when we talk about complex projects. Is complexity the same as complicated? By complex do we just mean a large project, one which is geographically distributed or using complex technology? Or are these mega projects, in fact,

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Can Too Much Project Planning Be Bad For Your Project?

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Planning a project is vital to its success but some restraint is necessary during the planning stage. If the planning phase takes on a life of its own it can waste valuable project resources. One of the essential parts of a well-run project is the project plan which will include not only the schedule but

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