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Project Management In Context And Organisation And Governance
Try the following questions and I will give you feedback on how you are progressing1) List and describe five duties of a project management office (PMO)?2) Explain five items you would consider as part of an end of project review?3) List and describe five benefits of project governance?4) Explain five advantage of a project (task […]
APM PMQ Exam Questions Starter For Ten
For those who have just started an APM PMQ course here are a couple of exam questions for you to try. 1) Describe five responsibilities of the project users during the project lifecycle? 2) List and describe the differences between projects and operations? 3) Describe the five benefits of a project lifecycle? 4) List and […]
The Corporate Benefits Of Project Management Training
From the overseeing manager and production team to the paying client, project management plays a vital role in serving everyone in the project process. Project management training shows how committed a company is to new projects and the industry’s code of ethics, allowing the team to get the working model completed in the designated timeframe […]
Frequently Asked Questions About Project Management
Here are answers to some basic questions for those new to project management or considering it as a career choice. Feel free to comment on these answers or ask your own question. What is Project Management? Project Management is the use of skills, knowledge, processes, and activities to reach a defined end-result that could […]
What makes for a great project management training course?
As all business owners and managers know, the core of business is setting and meeting goals. Some of these goals are short term, while others take considerably longer to achieve. When a particular goal can be broken down into discrete steps, it is often viewed as a project. Managing projects, however, is not as intuitive […]
Ten Questions Project Managers Should Ask Project Sponsors
Being a project manager requires various skills to get the project done successfully in the allotted timeframe. Project managers need effective project sponsorship to ensure proper funding. Each sponsor will wish to discuss the project’s budget and other crucial factors, but project managers should first ask these 10 questions to retain the right sponsors. 1. […]
Six reasons to use a project management framework
Basically, a Project Management Framework is used to define roles, responsibilities and a common lifecycle that can be applied to all the projects pertaining to a single organization. But, why use Project Management Framework? There are 6 reasons, which also called the 6Cs of why Project Management Framework needs to be used: • Consistency; • […]
Is a career in project management right for me?
Some project managers train specifically for a professional role in project management right from the start, whilst others progress through their organization in different roles, and at some point identify project management as a role they would like to take on. Sometimes it is a role that you fall into by accident or one that […]
Project Management In A Post-Recession World
It’s a relief that we are finally seeing signs of economic recovery on both sides of the Atlantic but the challenge now is whether companies that responded quickly and cut back in the hard times can respond equally quickly to meet the demands of a growing economy. When the recession hit in 2007/2008 many companies […]
Project Management In The News
Updated Edition of Project Management Essentials Authors: William P. Athayde, J.D., PMP; Ruth Elswick, PMP; and Paul Lombard, PMP, CQM New project managers, unofficial project managers, or project team members can all learn something from Project Management Essentials, Third Edition. It is one of the quickest and easiest ways to learn how to manage projects […]
What is a project health check, and why you need it
A project health check is a learning opportunity, a quick glance at the status of a project to see which areas need a little improvement and which are going according to plan. Very often, those closest to a project are the ones that have difficulty in seeing the progress that a project is, or is […]
Can you run a project without a project manager?
In tough difficult times for companies, often one of the default methods of improving the bottom line is to cut budgets and reduces the overall cost of running the company. When slashing budgets, the training budget is often the first to go, but this can actually end up doing harm to the business. One such […]
Project Management News
Call for Papers for 1st IPMA Research Conference in Berlin – November 2013 The first research conference co-organised by the German Project Management Association (GPM), the Swiss Project Management Association (SPM) and the International Project Management Association (IPMA) have issued a Call for Papers for the conference, which is being held in Berlin, Germany on […]
Balancing Good Project Management with Creative Freedom
I have often discussed whether as a project manager you need specific business or industry knowledge and experience in order to manage a project in that business/industry. Specific business knowledge can enable the project manager to talk the same “language” as project team members and to understand issues (particularly technical ones) in more depth. And yet project management as a discipline can be used in any type of business and the fundamentals of good project management apply to every industry so a professional project manager should be adaptable enough to manage any type of team.
4.7 Q2 – Matrix Organization
Describe 5 difficulties that a project Mgr. may experience when working in a matrix environment and give examples of things they might do to alleviate these. I would need some advices on the examples to alleviate the difficulties of working in matrix environment.
Project Management For Your Next Career Move!
Have you been exploring project management for your next career? There are many good reasons to pursue this career path, including the fact that an average of 1.2 million project management positions will need to be filled each year through 2016, according to a study published by the Anderson Economic Group. While categories like financial […]
APMP Answer To ‘Five Ways In Which A PM Can Motivate A Team’
1) One way in which a project manager can motivate a team is by having a clear vision for the project that inspires the project team. This is important because if people can see the project has a purpose beyond the here and now they will be more motivated to deliver. An example of this […]
Importance Of Project Management To Corporate Strategy
When you are running a large corporate company, planning plays a huge role in the success of your business. This fact simply exists because without a clear plan for implementation of strategic objectives a organisation can get lost with too many initiatives completing for too few resources. Interestingly this happens to organisations that are growing […]