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Research

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 [...]

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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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People, not technology: new research

August 25, 2008

In June, Forrester released a report that concluded that IT projects are people projects: people management skills are essential for the successful design and implementation of the project. Experienced project managers will know that this is common sense. It’s rarely the technology that lets projects down: in fact, studies have shown that technology is one [...]

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Solid Proof

August 11, 2008

PMI has commissioned some research into the value of project management. The findings were shared at their research conference in Warsaw last month, and you can watch the presentation here. The study apparently took three years of field-work and cross-disciplinary analysis that culminated in June this year. Now I’m a bit sceptical of a study [...]

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