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Inside PRINCE2: Working with APMP

March 1, 2010
This entry is part 3 of 11 in the series Inside PRINCE2

PRINCE2 is a well known qualification, but that doesn’t make it incompatible with other qualifications or project management methods.   OGC has recently produced a white paper looking at APMP for PRINCE2 Practitioners.   The white paper looks at the differences between the APMP qualification, which is one offered by APM and based on their Body of [...]

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Lazy Giveaway: last few days

October 21, 2009

Let me guess: you’re adopting Peter Taylor’s ‘lazy’ project management principles and not doing anything until you really have to. Or you have done a forward pass and a backward pass through your tasks for this month using critical path method, and having calculated the float for each you realised that you could leave this [...]

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APM Conference notes

December 3, 2008

If you weren’t able to attend the APM winter conference, you can get all the presentations and session notes online. APM have set up an impressive one-off blog to make everything available.  They have also put all the official conference photos on Flickr here.  There are two photos of me waving my arms around to [...]

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Keeping up: Responding to business challenges

November 24, 2008

Last week I wrote about the challenges facing project management as a result of evolving business practices.  So, how is project management responding to these challenges? Frankly, I don’t think that we are. 71% of projects fail each year Projects achieve 93% of what they set out to deliver… … and take 84% more time [...]

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