Forget January for New Year’s Resolutions. The return to work after the summer holidays is the best time to get your projects in shape, says Jason Westland. LA HABRA, Aug 29, 2013 – Returning to work after the summer is the time when most project managers focus their minds on getting things straight on their […]
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How to Suffer Successfully, is the title of chapter four in Alain de Botton’s first book of philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life. The same idea is the theme of The Adversity Paradox by J. Barry Griswell and Bob Jennings. The Adversity Paradox is full of inspiring examples of people who have suffered major
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The benefits of good project management serve all those who are involved in the process: the manager who is responsible for the project, the customer who is anxiously waiting for the completed project and the production team that gets this project up and running. Understanding benefits of professional management is not difficult, but they often
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Project Managers have very important roles in organisations across a whole range of industries. Their task to keep a project running within scope, on time and to budget is not confined to the job or project itself – they need to have a wide range of knowledge and skills to be successful. The success of
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Project Management is a fantastic and exciting career path, allowing you to work with all sorts of people on projects and products that are clever, interesting and innovative. But how do you break into such a competitive career? And once you’re a Project Manager, how do you stay at the top of your profession? Getting
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Describing scheduling, Earned Value and financial management as ‘project controls’ is dangerous! The steering mechanism on a car is a control system, you move the steering wheel the front wheels turn; and if the car is in motion its direction of travel is altered. Control systems cause a change. Altering the duration of a task
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Parallel Project Training is proud to announce the launching of its PMP prep podcasts PMBok Chapter 12. Complete and comprehensive coverage of the PMBok guide is made available in 15 podcasts to start off with their PMP certification. You can check Parallel Project Training Website for the release of its first major podcast which was
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With more than 600,000 members in over 185 countries around the world, the Project Management Institute is the global standard-bearer for the project management profession. PMI sets the standards for certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP,) engages in research into leadership and problem-solving, leads training seminars, and advocates for the roles of project managers.
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PMBOK describes the whole quantity of theory as well as learning talks about the practice of project quality management. Project management is a science and it is essential in domains like construction, software engineering and architecture. Process groups in project management are five and nine knowledge areas. For the groups to operate they require all
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Everyone in business today is buried under an avalanche of data, adding routine reports to the data mountain may no longer be useful! Is it time to bury traditional reports? Project reports originated in the days of typewriters and carbon paper. Information was painstakingly compiled, copy-typed and distributed to inform managers of the situation several
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