Communication is one of those vital life skills; it involves information being transmitted between a sender and a receiver. It is the sender who gives the message – by whatever means – and the receiver who either gets the message verbally or in written form. The success of communication relies on the words themselves but […]
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The G20 has acknowledged that in order to address hampered and depressed growth in Europe, America, and the developing world, investments should be made in infrastructure projects. They claim that “The lack of infrastructure dramatically hampers the growth potential in many developing countries,” and believe that addressing this challenge without delay is the best way
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Many of us have fast paced and highly demanding jobs so it’s no surprise that burnout can occur. Detecting signs of burnout is not something that can be easily taught but, nevertheless, it is important. So let’s look at the 3 main signs of burnout – knowing about them could help you spot the signs
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The House of PMO, a professional body for PMO professionals has today launched the first-ever PMO Competency Framework written by the profession for the profession. The PMO Competency Framework is a guide for PMO professionals interested in assessing and developing organisation-wide, team and personal competences within a PMO environment. The guidance within the PMO Competency
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The House of PMO, a new professional body for PMO professionals was launched today by Lindsay Scott and Eileen Roden – the team behind the PMO Flashmob and The PMO Conference. The House of PMO (HoPMO), headquartered in the UK with an international reach, creates a home for PMO professionals where they can develop themselves,
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A new list of top locations for project management in the world has been compiled by Elizabeth Harrin FAPM, author and blogger at GirlsGuideToPM.com. In her article on the top cities for project management, she looks at global hotspots for project investment and megaprojects. The cities listed include: Shanghai Las Vegas Seattle Washington DC and metro
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Six Lessons IT Project Management Can Learn from Spitting Image
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The very definition of Holiday (Noun – an extended period of leisure and recreation, especially one spent away from home or in travelling), is an entirely flexible parameter to work within, so how do we adapt? And what Project Management lessons are to be learnt from this summer?
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I have been running this project management news website for over 10 years now, the domain was registered in 2008. Today we have 570 posts, which is an average of once a week for each week in those ten years. Over the years we have seen many changes. Why Project Accelerator? The site started as
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So this week, we did our second live stream. This time John Bolton and I discussed linear, iterative and hybrid lifecycles. It’s a new topic in the 7th editions of the APM Body of Knowledge and it’s now also part of the APM PMQ syllabus. Linear lifecycles have been around for many years; they envisage
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