When we’re in school, the path forward is clear. Participate in lessons, study for exams, make an effort on your projects. However, when it comes to our career, the path forward can be ambiguous. In this article, I will go over one of the paths you can take as a project manager to propel […]
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The PMP certification is one of the biggest challenges faced by project managers in their career. It is the gold standard for project management professionals, and there are more than 750,000 certified project managers worldwide. To maintain certification, project managers must continue to meet professional development requirements. Although it can be a lot of
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Today the Association for Project Management opened the register for Chartered Project Professional’s. It’s been a long wait. The first post on the topic was way back in 2011 when, the late, Mike Nichols, announced a vision for a world in which every project succeeds at the APM Project Management Awards. Seven years later Mike would have been proud to see his
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In many respects, the way a specialist IT recruitment firm will go about the business of securing the right talent will not differ greatly from mainstream recruitment agencies. They will use job boards and social media and a range of industry standard tools. It is what happens beyond that ‘industry standard’ that gives most specialist
Like any exam APM Project Management Qualification not only tests your knowledge of project management but also you ability to understand how the exam works. It’s not an easy exam to pass because of the breadth of knowledge required. Unlike the Fundamentals exam APM PFQ, which is a one-hour multiple choice exam, APM PMQ involves
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For many years project managers have asked what does APMP stand for? Well now the APM qualification has a new name “APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ).” So what is the APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) The APM PMQ is a knowledge-based qualification for project managers set by The Association for Project Management, the professional body for
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This podcast looks at project context or environment – this is where the project sits within an organisation and in the wider world and what factors affect the project. For example – imagine the organisation you work at is an electronics company –all projects follow a theme that is well understood and familiar. However, in
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Everybody should have a clear understand of the different project roles because otherwise there could be confusion which can cause friction or chaos. This podcast from the Parallel Project Training’s APM Project Fundamentals distance learning course looks at the typical roles in a project.
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Listen to one of the APM Project Fundamentals Podcasts from Parallel Project Training This podcasts looks at Programme Management and Portfolio Management and the differences between them. There are 3 terms projects, programmes and portfolios and it can be a little confusing as to why we have them all. Programmes are simply a
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Why do we have a project lifecycle? Plants and animals have a lifecycle – they are born, live and die in the simplest sense so projects are the same. In this podcast we look in more detail at the project lifecycle. We break the project into a number of stages in the lifecycle
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