Project Management in Practice

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Australasian trends in MSP and impact on PRINCE2

2 Comments Posted by on May 9, 2012

The Wellington PRINCE2 User Group met last week at the Deloitte House. The guest speaker at the event was Geoff Rankins, a programme and project management professional with over 35 years of experience across ASX50 organisations, Federal and State Governments in Australia and international not for profit organisations. He is also a contributor to PRINCE2 [...]

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What methodologies do not solve

1 Comment Posted by on April 6, 2012

Organizations evolve through various phases in their existence. Good organizations have a continuous focus on how they do business and strive for improvement. One of the most common realizations organizations come to is the need to utilize standard methods and best practices in order to ensure higher quality outputs from its staff. While this is [...]

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Working with Project Sponsors

8 Comments Posted by on March 11, 2012

I went to the Wellington PRINCE2 User Group meeting this week. The topic of the meeting was working with project sponsors. The user group has a format where it invites three speakers, each speaking for seven minutes and no PowerPoint is allowed. At the end of the talks, there is the opportunity for Q&A, group [...]

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How do I handle external pressure?

2 Comments Posted by on March 5, 2012

Project management principles are the same world over. However, the application of those principles vary widely depending on the type of organisation you are in and the type of external pressures you face. Here I use the word external to mean influences outside the project, rather than the organisation. PMBOK and PRINCE2 contend that the [...]

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The project management religion

3 Comments Posted by on September 29, 2011

I was talking to a fellow project manager today discussing how our projects are run. During the discussion it was apparent that I was speaking to someone that had very clear views on how projects should be run. So much so, that all things needed to run in a very prescribed manner. I was intrigued [...]

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