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What are you worth?

May 5, 2009

Apparently the average salary for a programme manager is £70,196, down from £72,510 this time last year, according to G2, an IT specific recruitment agency. The range of programme manager salaries is actually much narrower than I was expecting, with the average minimum being £65,513 (last year – £66,711) and maximum being £74,990 (last year [...]

New stats on women in IT make old news

April 6, 2009

You would have thought that with the research on pay gaps and the Exemplar Employer report we would be past discussing whether women get a fair deal at work and would have moved on to what people are actually going to do about it. BCS, e-skills UK and Intellect, in association with the Department for [...]

Sales pitch or useful research?

March 30, 2009

Wellingtone have just produced an ‘executive summary’ that’s called ‘Avoiding Project Failure and the Importance of the Skilled Project Manager‘. I’ve read the document, and frankly, I’m disappointed. First: an executive summary is normally a summary of something more substantial. This document stands alone so there is nothing more behind it. Second: it uses facts [...]

Take part in this research!

February 18, 2009

It’s not too late to take part in the latest research survey on the Value of Project Management from the Center for Business Practices. The survey takes about 10 minutes to complete and you’ll get a copy of the results afterwards if you provide an email address. Click here to take the survey.

How good is your PMO?

January 20, 2009

A new study has shown that nearly half of Project, Programme and Portfolio Management Offices (PMOs) rate themselves as Fair or Poor in terms of effectiveness. I think that’s terrible, especially as it was the PMO team or those close to them who responded to the survey. As the purpose of having a PMO is [...]

Another survey

January 19, 2009

Today’s the last day to complete the Arras People 2009 Project Management Survey. The results of the survey form a snapshot of the state of project management recruitment and the industry in the UK – last year’s study made interesting reading, and of course it is always good to find out what your peers are [...]

Impact of the economy on project management

January 18, 2009

Josh Nankivel of PMStudent.com is running a survey on the impact of the currect economic situation on project management. If you have an anecdote to share, complete the survey. He’s had responses from all over the world so far: Costa Rica, India, Mexico, Holland, Germany, France, Canada, the US, China, Australia, but no one from [...]

The state of project management recruitment

December 18, 2008

Vince Hines, Managing Director at Wellingtone has recently written a white paper on the state of the project management recruitment market. This is timely, given that all you read about in the papers is doom and gloom and unemployment. Hines concludes that: Project management vacancies are down – to about 61% of demand from this [...]

Keeping up: aligning project management to real business

November 17, 2008

At the APM conference last month I spoke about the challenges facing project managers working in a 21st Century business environment. I first got interested in this as a topic when I started working in healthcare about 18 months ago. The speed of advancements in healthcare technology is incredible, and every week there’s something new [...]

Progression of women in PM: new research

September 13, 2008

Zuzana Botkova, an MBA student, is writing her dissertation on the progression of women in project management. The main areas of focus for her research are motivation, challenges, leadership behaviours and the soft skills and emotional intelligence of project managers. She has already scheduled research interviews with male and female project managers, and the [...]

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