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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The world has changed profoundly since COVID-19. No one saw a global pandemic coming but now isn’t the time to panic. Instead, companies need to evolve and adapt to survive. And one way to do that is to successfully manage your team remotely. Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, 88% of worldwide organizations have mandated
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IT Projects are perfectly placed to shape the future of business as we emerge from this pandemic
Businesses need to be leaner and more innovative.
It’s time for IT Project teams to say, “Hold our coffee, watch us do our thing” – this is our moment.
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