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The Best Advice for Selecting a Project Management Course in 2024
Selecting the right project management course can significantly impact your career trajectory, providing the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in today’s competitive environment. With numerous options available, it’s essential to choose a course that aligns with your experience level, career goals, and learning preferences. Here’s a comprehensive guide to help you make an informed…
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Elevating Your Project Management Skills Through Mentorship
Mentorship is a very powerful way in which you can learn from those in your industry who have more knowledge, experience and skills. If you have completed your AMP PFQ qualifications but you are still a project manager who is in training, you may find having a mentor very beneficial. They will be able to…
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Can you afford to be without a project manager?
Project management isn’t cheap. In fact, it is estimated that it takes up around 20% of the overall budget of your project. However, if you run a project that has bad management or lacks a solid management basis then you are probably doing more harm than good and costing yourself in the long-run. This is…
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Project Manager’s Resilience Training: Bouncing Back from Setbacks
Project management is challenging and exciting, but above all this, it is an incredibly fulfilling role. It is also a role that can put a project manager under considerable pressure, with stressful setbacks. This means you need to be able to handle pressure and have the resilience to cope in the long term. Why is…
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The Post Office Horizon scandal: embracing accountability in IT Project Management – why there is an I in fail
This blog, while perhaps inspired by, is not about the Horizon scandal per se – but we can all learn from it. This post is more about the importance of accountability, taking ownership of those moments when something is not right and embracing a “for the greater good” culture.
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What is Project Governance?
Over the course of the last 15 years, there have been some rather significant changes in the field of project management. It is now widely recognised as a discipline that most business owners have a great need for within their organisation. Whether they are a large organisation or a small one, employ many individuals or…
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IT Project Manager – Regenerated
Do you watch Doctor Who? I find the concept of the central character’s ability to regenerate fascinating. The same “person” but with changing and evolving attitudes, moods, methods, quirks, and ways. It has always chimed with me and the way that we adapt. This last time, the Doctor’s regeneration felt even more relatable and of-the-moment, as David…
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Your 2024 IT Project management mantra: start with the end user in mind
It was Steven Covey who coined the phrase “begin with the end in mind” in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I’ve always loved that simple idea – have clarity about what the outcome must look like before beginning any endeavour. In IT Project Management, as tech advances exponentially, it’s important that…
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APM PMQ Exam Questions Advice
When it comes to exams such as the APM PMQ from The Association for Project Management, there is always an element of repetition from one year to the next. That is to say, there are some questions that, whilst we cannot guarantee they will appear on the paper, we can venture with some degree of…
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Top 3 ways to retain IT project talent and remain effective when you can’t
Is it “National Clear Your Desk Week” or something? My social media timelines are full of IT project management friends and acquaintances announcing new positions. On LinkedIn resumés are being refreshed and updated, meanwhile Instagram and Facebook are full of photos of leaving dos (I’m even in some of them) and leaving gifts and “Good…
