Project Management in Practice

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Tag Archives: Project and Program Management

Managing Projects Better

Leave a Comment Posted by on May 23, 2012

This is a presentation that I did to management a few months ago with the aim of continually improving the operations of the project office. I thought it would be a good thing to share with the community. Managing Projects Better View more PowerPoint from Shoaib Ahmed Your feedback is most welcome. Related articles How [...]

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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 do I do in a failing project

3 Comments Posted by on October 9, 2011

I was reading a report from Keith Ellis from IAG Consulting that only one in three software development projects in the US actually makes it to completion. Larger the organisation, higher the chance of cancellation. Regardless of the reasons behind the cancellations, it means as a project manager, time will come when you will have [...]

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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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What impact does modern communication have on project management?

1 Comment Posted by on September 26, 2011

Yesterday, I was looking at the PRINCE2 manual for a highlight report content for a project. As I was doing my reading, I found myself going through some other topics before I got to the specific topic I was looking for. Suddenly,  occurred to me that I could just use a Google search to quicken [...]

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