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Significant Weaknesses in Commercial Skills & Expertise

£200billion Government Projects at Risk Projects, like businesses, often fail because they are not properly managed, and concern is growing over the lack of experienced project managers with the skills and knowledge base needed to deliver the large projects and programmes being planned over the coming years. A small number of recent headlines; - ‘The strong consensus has been that the NHS and DH need commercial skills as never before’ – DH - Out of Control: How the Government overspends on capital projects – taxpayersalliance.com - We must attract, retail and develop talent’ – NHS Employers - £200bn government projects ‘at risk’ – Computer world UK.com The National Audit Office (NAO) has recently released a report titled ‘Commercial skills for complex government projects’. The report is part of a series of NAO reports examining the current level of commercial skills and experiences in the Government

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If You Are A Project Manager, Get Your PMP® Certification

If you are like me, it doesn't really matter how much you are making, you need a pay raise! Vicky Wrona of Global knowledge did a study of Project Manager salaries and discovered that certified PMPs recieve 15-30% more than their non-certified co-workers! Don't you think it would be worth passing that PMP exam for a 15 to 30% raise? Of course it would. There are some other things that, as a project manager, you have to understand.

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10 Steps to project managment success

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What is Project Benefits Management?

Usually a project is considered successful if groups of the project parameters like cost, time and scope are properly selected and match the expectations of project stakeholders. Some people devote much time and many efforts trying to initiate, plan, track and manage their projects, but they often don’t give a great deal of thoughts to actually the benefits of each project .

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Social Media: The Double Edged Sword

As the expansion of social media websites accelerates, many project managers have asked themselves, “Is the time I spend with my marketing team building social networks worth it or am I wasting my time?” Well, the answer is yes.

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Project Management with Google Wave

Experts say that up to 90% of a project manager’s time is spent on communication either with stakeholders, project team, suppliers or upper management within the organization.

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Skills and experience are not enough

My conviction, from the past learnings, especially in managing people is, we need more than just skills and experience to deliver. I will start with 3 major buckets when looking for resources in a project team

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Stakeholder analysis

Stakeholder identification entails conducting a comprehensive stakeholder analysis (rarely, it’s called Stakeholder identification method or Stakeholder identification technique). A group of people responsible for stakeholder identification creates a stakeholder table where stakeholder groups, project goals and ways to achieve these goals are included. Being a tool to conduct a complete stakeholder analysis within the stakeholder identification process , the stakeholder table allows answering the following questions: Who are the stakeholders?

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Top ten reasons why a project fails

1. Poor planning: Who are your IT managers and do they get enough opportunity to plan or under pressure from senior management they tend to think planning as a waste of time because they believe that time is better spent doing something rather than planning. Do you involve your project team in planning?

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The Value of Project Templates

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We’re often asked “Why are templates so valuable” so we thought we’d answer the question in this Article. There are 5 reasons why managers and teams find templates so useful. They are as follows: They save you time On every new project, you have to fill-in documents to plan, track and report on the status of your project.

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