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Parallel Training Project Management Blog
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.
How To Use Agile Project Management
With rapidly changing business environments companies need to respond quickly, and react positively, to change. Very often the expectations and […]
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Different Learning Styles And How They Impact You And Your Team
As a project manager you will have worked with many different types of people, all whom learn in very different […]
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How Mind Mapping Can Bring a Fresh Approach to Project Management
During a professional project manager’s career they are likely to experience a range of projects in all shapes and sizes. […]
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How To Manage A Small Project
Small projects can bring unique challenges; as they are smaller, many project managers skip the prep and jump straight into […]
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Why Project Scope is Important
For every project you should know at the outset what you are aiming to achieve and be able to state […]
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Good Project Management Reads
Some of the articles I have most enjoyed reading this month… Don’t be afraid to move industry. Your skills have […]
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Practice Exam V1.8 – Couple Of Queries (Q7 And Q10)
Hi Paul, I’ve had a go at the practice exam paper which the APM publish (v1.8) and there’s two questions I’m […]
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Why Are PM Qualifications Important?
In project management just as in many other professional careers solid experience is essential for complex or lengthy projects. But […]
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Feedback Request For Answers To Chapter 12 (Procurement)
Hi Paul – last ones!! Thanks for your feedback, I probably won’t post any more answers unless I come across […]
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Feedback Request For Answers On Chapter 11 (Quality)
Hi Paul – wasn’t sure in the second question at the end of the chapter what the fifth step in […]
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Feedback: Questions Chapter 10 (Risk And Issue Management)
Consider the diagram below and list the top five risks in order of severity. List and describe four responses to […]
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Answers To Questions On Chapter 9 (Schedules And Resources)
Hi Paul – mostly fine on this chapter I think, apart from a a third potential risk of splitting a task? Thanks,Sarah […]
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