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Hi Paul – thanks for your feedback to my other answers, much appreciated!!  Haven’t had chance to post the rest I’ve done till today so will be posting for three chapters, advice gratefully received. He are my answers on the communications plan.  Thanks, Sarah I have updated your answer to include some more detail. My additions […]

There are various routes to the APMP exam: you might have done a distance learning course to balance work, home and study in the way that suited you best, you may have attended an in-house training course offered by your employer or you may have attended a public training course at your own or your […]

Projects have a start and finish point; A project could be used to produce a standard operating procedure for manufacturing a new product. Once the SOP is approved and is being used to produce said product: The project ends and business as usual proceeds. For example the design and construction of a new school would be […]

As a PRINCE2 Practitioner you may be wondering whether there is any advantage in studying for the APMP qualification, particularly if your organisation follows the PRINCE2 approach for its projects. However, as a project manager there is much to be learnt from studying other approaches because rarely is one approach always the best way for […]

Hello Paul, Would it be possible to give me some feedback on my answer to question 1 in Section 7: Communications?                                                      Describe five main components of a project communications plan.   1. The target for the communications. Work performed on stakeholder analysis during the initial phases of the project will be extremely useful in […]

Paul – I submitted a few questions for feedback last week, and here are a couple more!!  Any feedcback as to whether I’m on the right lines gratefully received.  Thanks, Sarah Explain what is meant by the term project government.Explain four effects there might be on the organisation’s project it project governance is not implemented […]

Explain five distinct benefits of using a structure life cycle approach.Five distinct benefits of using a structured life cycle approach are as follows:1. Following a structured life cycle approach provides a logical progression for a project to follow. As part of this, key activities during any given phase are defined in advance providing a coherent […]

Explain three examples of a matrix organisation structure when used in a project environment.Explain two difficulties that a project manager may experience when working in a matrix environment.Paul – I struggled to understand what the first part of this question was asking for so am not sure if my answer is right. I also couldn’t […]

The purpose of a project health & safety plan is to ensure that all those people working on a given project do so in a healthy and safe environment.  The plan will also extend to ensure that there is no danger to members of the public as a result of the a project.  A health […]

Project context is the environment in which a project takes place.  It is vitally important that the project manager has a good understanding of the contract of a project as it will impact the running of the project and the outcome and its reception.  The context of a project can include several factors from the […]

Paul, given your comments to the other question I answered I realise I need to begin this answer with a list, but your comments on the rest of the answer would be good.  Thanks, Sarah Programmes involve the management of several interdependent projects together with their interaction with business-as-usual.  Where the scope of the ultimate objective […]

Hi Paul, further to my previous post I’ll post my other answers one by one here – feedback gratefully received.  (These were written before looking at Francine’s answers).  Thanks, Sarah Programme Management allows a greater degree of risk control and communication between different projects.  This means that risks can be managed more effectively their impact […]

One of the harder questions on the sample paper from the APM is about environmental legislative requirements. Below is a very good answer from one of my students. Marks 50 marks (10 marks each) When planning the project the project manager must take into account many different aspects of environmental legislation. Some of this is specific […]

Hi,  I’ve had a first go at the sample questions in the Study Guide and would appreciate some feedback to see if I’m on the right path.  I’ll be submitting five discussions for the five questions.  The first question (below) in particular I’m aware I’ve not written enough but I’m not quite sure what else to […]

Hi,  I’ve had a first go at the sample questions in the Study Guide and would appreciate some feedback to see if I’m on the right path.  The first question in particular I’m aware I’ve not written enough but I’m not quite sure what else to write without waffling too much!  I’ve listed beside the question […]