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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.

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Describe How To Communicate A Schedule To Stakeholders

5th December 2016

Describe how the following can be used to communicate a schedule to different stakeholders: a)WBS A WBS illustrates all of […]

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Prerequisites For: Comparative, Analytical, Parametric.

4th December 2016

The pre-requisites to estimating techniques are The pre-requisites for comparative estimating are a set of data from similar projects to […]

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Winter Sale: Get Ready For 2017 with 20% off

2nd December 2016

If ever there was a time to celebrate our involvement in the world of project management now is that time; […]

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quality management process

Essential Elements in a Quality Management Process

18th November 2016

We all know that a good quality project is one in which the final outcome or deliverable meets the needs […]

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List And Describe 5 Components – Information Management Process

26th October 2016

1.Collection  2. Storage 3. Dissemination  4. Archive  5. Destruction  Information management is about the organisation collating information from the start […]

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New Professional Recognition For Project Managers

15th October 2016

In my last post I discussed the skills and qualities that project managers need to develop to be successful because […]

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The Politically Astute Project Manager

22nd September 2016

In this post, we return to the topic of politics in projects. Politics has a bit of a dirty name. […]

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Importance of people in projects

The Importance Of The People In Projects

16th August 2016

Pure project management is about planning, communicating, monitoring, controlling, reporting etc etc but it is also about risk management and […]

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Barriers To Cooperation In Your Project Team

16th August 2016

Have you ever worked in a project team where someone, or sometimes multiple someones, seem determined to create conflict, no […]

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Project Management – Keep It Simple

16th August 2016

Project management can be extremely complicated, but it needn’t be. And it is beneficial for us all to simplify our […]

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Asking The Right Questions About A Project

15th July 2016

We all know that few projects run smoothly but, as a project manager, you can help your project to avoid […]

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Saving A Failing Project Doesn’t Always Mean Extra Resources

15th July 2016

As project managers we all know the value of extra resources – if only we had that extra time in […]

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