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Research shows women don’t want management jobs

July 27, 2011

Intellect’s Women in IT Forum and womenintechnology.co.uk recently released the results of their survey about women working in the technology profession. The survey shows that although 8% of women have reached director-level roles, up 3% on 2007, many women are not interested in pursuing pure management roles and want to remain doing hands on, technical jobs. [...]

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Is project management training really effective?

July 20, 2011

There’s a whole industry around project management training. Job adverts declare that you have to be PMP certified or a PRINCE2 Practitioner. But does training actually make a difference to how you do your job? Training can make you about 26% more effective, according to research by PM Solutions. Only 28% of organisations bother to [...]

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Social Media in a Project Environment: 2011 Survey results now in!

April 27, 2011
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Over 75% of you feel that social media tools provide the opportunity to improve the way you manage projects, according to this year’s Social Media in a Project Environment survey. The 2011 results show how project managers around the world are using social media tools to manage projects and lead teams. There was lots of [...]

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Research shows female project managers earn less (but we might get more maternity pay)

March 14, 2011

The Arras People 2011 Benchmark Report is out – and this year the study shows some interesting facts about pay. Pay for female project professionals peaks at the £30k to £40k salary band.  Salaries for women over £65k are rare, and only 15% of women earn over £50k. Male salaries plateau between £30k and £50k [...]

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The Social Media & Project Management Survey returns

February 16, 2011

This year I am once again running the Social Media in a Project Environment survey. This time last year lots of you completed the survey and the results (which you can access on my blog; scroll down to Social Media Survey Results 2010) provided a snapshot of how social media tools were being used by [...]

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Social Media in a Project Environment: 2011 Survey

January 19, 2011

This year I am once again running the Social Media in a Project Environment survey.  This time last year lots of you completed the survey and the results provided a snapshot of how social media tools were being used by project managers and in project environments. This year I have tweaked the survey slightly to [...]

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Social media in a project environment – the results

April 26, 2010

Earlier this year I ran a survey looking at the uses of social media and enterprise collaboration tools in a project environment.  Thank you, if you participated.  I had responses from 32 countries and nearly 250 people, so I was very pleased with the breadth of data I was able to gather. I did have [...]

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PM News round-up

January 27, 2010

Lots of little announcements today. So What giveaway: last few days If you haven’t entered the giveaway to win a copy of Mark Magnacca’s book So What?: How to Communicate What Really Matters to Your Audience you have until Friday.  Find out how to enter here. Social Media in a Project Environment survey I’ve had [...]

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State of the Industry: your say

January 8, 2010

If you have taken my social media for project management survey and have got the taste for giving your opinion about project management, Arras People are also running their comprehensive Benchmark Report again this year.  You can have your say about the state of the project management industry in the UK via their website.  It [...]

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Do this! A research study for you

July 25, 2009

Back in February I interviewed Chris Haigh, who was doing an MSc in Project Management and had recently won a Shell Step award for one of his projects. Chris is now at the point of putting together his final bits for his MSc, from which he graduates later this year.  His research project is about [...]

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