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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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Project Management Context And Organisations And Governance

10th March 2014

These are some typical questions based on the first two chapters in the book. Remember to get the full marks […]

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Cross Cultural Project Teams

Project Management Around The World

10th March 2014

Managing Global Projects & What I’ve Learnt About Outsourcing Thinking about what to write for this #PMFlashBlog I started recalling […]

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A Basic Guide For Success In Project Management

28th February 2014

Project management in its simplest form is the organisation and tracking of tasks required to complete a project. A project […]

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What Are The Benefits Of Planning A Project?

25th February 2014

Individuals and organisations regularly start a project believing that it can be easily controlled and does not require formal planning […]

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Project Completion Estimates

Is Any Project Ever Truly Successful?

21st February 2014

So many projects of all different types fail to live up to our initial expectations that you might wonder if […]

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Six Tips for the Perfect Project Plan

20th February 2014

We have talked before about what is a project plan. In this post we wanted to extend this to talk about […]

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Project Management Planning

How To Avoid Project Failure

18th February 2014

There are many and varied reasons why a project might fail. Certain industries have a much higher chance of failure […]

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RAM (RACI) chart exercise

6th February 2014

    Hi Paul,   Can you please check over the below? Thanks. Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE […]

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Planning software exercise

6th February 2014

    Hi Paul,   Can you critique the below please?     Describe 5 major examples of how software […]

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New Questions For Those Just Starting The APMP Course

3rd February 2014

Try any of these typical questions  1) List and describe five differences between a project managment process and a lifecycle? […]

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Governance Of Project Management

31st January 2014

Question 3 from Exam Paper for comment etc – just a straight read across from the BoK.  Is this acceptable […]

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Conflict Managment

31st January 2014

Question 2 from the Exam Paper – for comment etc.  Am I the only one to think the question doesn’t […]

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