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Project Plus News
Saving Money and Reducing Risk in your Organisation...
Project Manager Today, the well known and widely circulated independent business publication has included a Project Plus thought-leadership article in a recent issue. The article titled 'Getting Return on Investment from your Project Management Office', written by Iain Fraser and Dave Rochford, is a shortened version of a full paper that has been created to assist organisations gain more from their investment iniatitives by way of better developing their portfolio, programme and project offices. It touches on the strategic aspects of alignment betweeen strategy, operation planning and project execution. Sign up via the next column if you'd like to receive the full version of the whitepaper or simply give us a ring.
What Organisations Want from New Project Managers...
Recently the Project Management Institute (PMI) spoke with 3 globally recognised leaders in the project management profession to seek their views on what organisations big and small need from those new to project management. Our Group Managing Director, Iain Fraser, was one of those selected. Follow this link to hear, via podcast, Iain's insights towards the future.
Ministry of Defence Source Global Learning...
Adding to the existing 'Approved Learning Provider' status for the Enhanced Learning Credits Scheme (ELCAS), Project Plus has also now gained 'Approved Supplier' status with the Career Transition Programme (CTP) via the Ministry of Defence. This service is offered through our UK and NZ offices.
Already some defence personnnel have taken advantage of the comprehensive training and certification options that Project Plus offer by completing a programme of learning that provides them with enhanced skills in project management. Most UK defence personnel, irrespective of their geographical location, can take advantage of the enhanced learning that the Project Plus training and certification options provide and gain internationally recognised accreditations in project management.
New Training Workshops Available Now...
The successful introduction of our most recent products has been well received with excellent feedback from those that have attended our workshops. Each of those continues to be available both in-house as well as via our public schedule. These new offerings are:
1. Practical Stakeholder Management - a pragmatic workshop that offers a rubust and simple to use approach to the complex and often mis-understood area of stakeholder management. The knowledge and tools gained during attendence will allow greatly assist with stakeholder expectation management and ultimate satisfaction.
2. Business Change Management - change is the de-rigour for 2010. Irrespective if your change initiative is small and straightforward or large and complex, effective change management is essential to your success and the sustainalbility of the change. Learn the Why and the How to.
3. Managing Multi Priorities - this workshop is highly focussed of time management and the management of competing priorities. Learn how to work smart, work on the right things for improved effectiveness and do stuff the right way for increased efficiency.
Also available are our new and exciting PRINCE2 Certification options where we maintain a 100% delegate pass rate!
The Project Plus training & certification range of solutions is available across the entire UK as well as other countries around the world. This is in line with our strategy that will see Project Plus as the premier brand recognised for its diversity and value of project-based learning solutions. We continue to invest in research and development of new training workshops and certification options as well as making sure our existing products continue to reflect global best practice, contemporary thinking and market need.
Our Experts are Available and Ready!
The Project Plus pool of skilled programme/project managers and business consultants is always ready to provide advice or specific hands-on service to any of our clients. Complexity of assignment nor distance are barriers to our passion for assisting our clients gain clear differentation from their competitors and to effect transformational change.
Whether it be better execution of stategy, establishment of a PMO, capability assessments or professional development we have the skills and expertise to assist. Get in touch and find out how.
Thought-Leadership and Advocacy for PM Profession...
Iain Fraser, Group Managing Director and past Chair of the Board of PMI, continues to be in strong demand as a thought-leader and speaker for key events that relate to the portfolio, programme or project management and business results. These are a mix of in-house presentations to executives as well as public presentations at various conferences and other forums. One of the most recent was a presentation on board a cruise ship in the Caribbean!
Dave Rochford, one of our senior associates, recently presented to a group of government people in Suffolk. Dave's theme was on the value of PMO's to organisations and also touched on cost reduction techniques to optimise investment and maximise return.
Both Dave and Iain will be presenting further in the UK to audiences around the country.
Our Opinion on Topical Aspect...
Adjacent to this News section is an area where we offer a considered and short opinion from Project Plus on a topic that is relevant to project-based management and business across all sectors. Each short article will extract from the large library of 'whitepapers' that Project Plus has researched and presented to business, government and project audiences around the world.
The current article offers an opinion that should clarify some of the confusion on PMBOK® versus PRINCE®. Click on the tab to read more.
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Current Opinion:
PMBOK® vs PRINCE2®
Around the world it seems that businesses, governments, NGO’s and others are somewhat confused by the debates around the merits of popular project management approaches. In particular the Project Management Institutes (PMI) ‘Project Management Body of Knowledge’ (PMBOK ®) and Office of Government Commerce (OGC) ‘Projects in Controlled Environments’ (PRINCE2 ®) seem to cause the most debate and therefore giving rise to the most confusion. This short article offers an overview of the differences and similarities of each approach. It also provides a case for collaboration between both. More ......
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