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From beginner’s guides to breakdowns of advanced topics, our blog covers key project management topics. These can supplement your learning on one of our project management training courses, or provide a starting point for your own project management learning.

Do PRINCE2 Practitioners Need The APMP Qualification?

6th March 2015

As a PRINCE2 Practitioner you may be wondering whether there is any advantage in studying for the APMP qualification, particularly […]

Feedback For Question 1 In Section 7: Communications?

5th March 2015

Hello Paul, Would it be possible to give me some feedback on my answer to question 1 in Section 7: […]

Feedback On Questions On Organisation And Governance

22nd February 2015

Paul – I submitted a few questions for feedback last week, and here are a couple more!!  Any feedcback as […]

Feedback Request For Answers To Life Cycles Questions

15th February 2015

Explain five distinct benefits of using a structure life cycle approach.Five distinct benefits of using a structured life cycle approach […]

Organsations And Structures – Questions From Study Guide

15th February 2015

Explain three examples of a matrix organisation structure when used in a project environment.Explain two difficulties that a project manager […]

Explain The Purpose Of A Project Health & Safety Plan

14th February 2015

The purpose of a project health & safety plan is to ensure that all those people working on a given […]

Explain What Is Meant By The Term Project Context.

14th February 2015

Project context is the environment in which a project takes place.  It is vitally important that the project manager has […]

Feedback – List And Describe Five Features Of A Programme

14th February 2015

Paul, given your comments to the other question I answered I realise I need to begin this answer with a […]

5 Key Benefits Of Using A Programme Management Approach

14th February 2015

Hi Paul, further to my previous post I’ll post my other answers one by one here – feedback gratefully received. […]

Project Managers – What You Need To Succeed

13th February 2015

It may not be ‘Dry January’ anymore and we’re definitely way past New Year’s Resolutions being fresh, but that doesn’t […]

List/Describe 5 Environmental Legislative Requirements

10th February 2015

One of the harder questions on the sample paper from the APM is about environmental legislative requirements. Below is a very […]

Studying the APM PMQ Project Management Qualifications Outside the UK

9th February 2015

We get asked quite often about taking the APM PMQ distance learning course exam from outside the UK. This is […]

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