Are you thinking about propelling your career with more qualifications? Embarking on a career change? Or maybe you want to learn more about your field. But when you look closely at the qualification you want, you’re already experience in half of the topics. There’s no...
In a time of skills shortages, organisations frequently need to create project management resources from within. The task of skilling project managers is often left to HR managers who may have neither the time, nor the expertise to advise on the best track for project...
What’s included in PM training? When you attend traditional training you might learn how to identify and manage issues, estimate and manage budgets, identify and treat risks, schedule tasks and resources, manage project quality, and identify lessons learned. You might...
What is a sponsor? The oxford dictionary defines a sponsor as simply someone who “makes himself or herself responsible for another”. In a project sense this means taking on responsibility for the success of a project in an organisation. It means...
Gone are the days where just anybody can be a project manager. Lack of project management experience can be disastrous for organisations as recent high profile failures have demonstrated. Former AIPM CEO Peter Shears said at a Canberra conference a few years ago:...
Good project managers have skills that apply in every management profession. Most people understand the traditional view of project managers. They establish a project’s scope, prepare budgets and schedules, plan communications, monitor and report on all the...
