Project Management news
Best Practice Showcase 2011
Best Practice Showcase 2011 17th June 2011, London For further information see: http://www.bestpracticeshowcase.com Now in its ninth year, Best Practice Showcase has consistently proved itself to be one of the most effective events for meeting and sharing your...
Advanced Strategic Project Management, online certificate course
I am looking forward to starting the online 'Advanced Strategic Project Management' course, part of the Master Certificate in Project Management offered by Villanova University. I am undertaking this course courtesy of Arras People who have offered the course in...
Project Challenge Spring Show 2011
Project Challenge Spring Show 2011, 30th-31st March 2011, NEC, Birmingham, for further info see: http://www.projchallenge.com If you are focused 100% on making your project a success and want to meet project challenges head on...this event is not to be missed....
International Project Management Day – 4th November 2010
International Project Management Day (IPM Day) is intended to encourage project based organizations worldwide or organizations who utilize project management methodologies to schedule some type of recognition event within their organizations or coordinated locally...
Are virtual conferences a waste of time?
Some would say yes without hesitation – you can’t beat a ‘real’ conference, there is no ‘face to face’, it is difficult to ask questions during presentations or demo’s, surely the technology is far to complex to let me join, I bet I will have difficulties, I simply...
Project management as a life skill?
Wikipedia states ‘Life skills are a set of human skills acquired via teaching or direct experience that are used to handle problems and questions commonly encountered in daily human life.’ [1] The World Health Organization defines life skills as "abilities for...
Book Review: Transforming Government and Public Services
It was very timely that I began reading this book just as the new UK Government took power. There were a lot of promises and discussions over the need to change government procedures, policies and services, and to look at major programmes of work and decide which ones...
Book Review: International Project Management
I’ll get this out of the way at the start, this is a textbook, and is stated to be aimed at advanced business or engineering students, and practitioners. Having been a student once, a CPD advocate, and a project management practitioner, I have to say this book does...
Book Review: No Fear
‘Fasten your seatbelts. We are about to enter the tunnel of fear.’ Perhaps not the usual opening line to a text book aimed at business readers, but then again, this is not your usual business book. Jerico has delved into one of the trickiest of subjects to discuss,...