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A few years back I did a survey of all the products that were on the market place and then it was limited to products like Microsoft Project, CA Super Project, Primvera, PM Workbench and a few others which provided for planning a project. And of course these were workstation only packages. Now look...
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OK, what’s your take on this whole idea of one size fitting all? Is it realistic that one set of Project Management procedures are appropriate for ALL projects? Let’s not even take this at a global level, let’s just say within the same organisation or even within the same department. Is it realistic? Let’s consider...
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So who should be members of a project office? Well in a previous article I argued that actually you need to consider what you’re looking for from your project office. This in turn then, surely helps to dictate who should be members; some possible examples include, (but are by no means limited to) the...
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Now where was it!!!! Never underestimate the importance of effective filing systems within a project.  It is great to have mountains of information and resources but if no one knows where to access this information, they are nowhere near as valuable. I have often been in a position, where a vital piece of information that I...
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A while back I worked within an enterprise Project Management Office and had the job title “Special Projects Manager”. Now some of may see this as a glorified way to describe the guy who gets all the jobs that the Director doesn’t want to do!  And whilst you may be partially right, it did...
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A friend of mine recently emailed me, he had an interview and was being asked to present on the subject of the Benefits of a PSO and wanted to know if I could help him. My immediate reaction was that I could easily present on the benefits, but then I got thinking, what really...
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