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Higher Education and the PPM Influence
When compared to the likes of the classics, sciences and history, a project management-specific curriculum in higher education throughout the United Kingdom is in its relative infancy. PPM is an...
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Differentiating Yourself: Where Things Stand Today
In recent times we have advised potential job seekers that a significant amount of job vacancies are never advertised to the wider public. In fact 80% of roles are never advertised which might seem...
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A Book and a Reminder
Two things this morning: 1. Project Management Tipoffs will be in your inbox next week, provided you’ve subscribed to it for free. (And woe to the project manager who hasn’t This month, we’re tackling...
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Have Your Say – What the Broader Project Management Community Says
Taking to the social media spheres at our disposal, including an online poll we’ve conducted and shared below, the thoughts of the wider project management community about higher education and project...
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Next Week in Tipoffs: Agile Project Management
A week from today, Project Management Tipoffs is tackling Agile Project Management. Drawing on various sources we tackle some of the confusion – what exactly is agile project management? Project...
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An Agile Advocate Speaks Out
We recently put out an All Social Media Points Bulletin for advocates of agile project management. Ultimately, we’ve been seeking professionals from a variety of backgrounds (Agile to PM, PM to Agile,...
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From Tipoffs: Let’s Be Agile Together!
As a project manager of many years experience, working both pan sector and discipline, whilst using many different flavours of methodology I have to admit that I am still struggling to position the...
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Finding Our Voice
The Arras People Podcast has gone through some name changes and dealt with the usual nebulous, development stage stuff (complications with the recording equipment, the need for an audio engineering...
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From Tipoffs: Perspectives on an Effective Agile Project
Agile Project Management has its share of detractors. But we’ve spoken with a few of its backers as well from a variety of backgrounds. There are full-blown “agilistas” out there that can make the...
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Tipoffs Just One Week Away
Project Management Tipoffs, the project management & recruitment issues newsletter from Arras People, will be in inboxes next Thursday morning. Subscribe today for free to get an initial look at...
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Final 2011 Tipoffs Just One Week Away
Normally I preview the month’s edition of Tipoffs on the second Thursday of each month, but an equally (OK: more) colossal event will be featured in this spot tomorrow, so stay tuned. The third...
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Can Social Networking Help My Job Search?
“How are social networking and community sites helping project managers in their careers?“ - Radha, London Lindsay Scott of Arras People says: Much of the feedback from our own community of project...
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The Resolution: Maximise the Twitter Experience
Twitter, as pointed out very well by Gurprriet Siingh-Joy on Twitter Tuesday morning (start with this one and work your way up), is democratic (his words) and Darwinian (mine). In fact, MySpace...
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Tipoffs Due Out Next Week – Predictions
Prediction? PAIN. As the economic picture goes worldwide, doom and gloom are back for another go ’round, offering a Clubber Lang to Rocky Balboa’s hope and optimism. Or so it would seem in Metaphor...
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Days To Go: Tipoffs on Project Management Challenges
As some of the UK’s #pmot brethren are in London next week for another installment of the bi-annual Project Challenge, Project Management Tipoffs comes out Thursday with a mind for some of the...
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Tipoffs Out Thursday
It’s all academic for Project Management Tipoffs this Thursday. The May edition is in the hands of the esteemed members of our Arras People Project Management Higher Education Directory, which is...
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EPISODE 27 – PM: Think, Teach, Do
We’re bringing the Arras People Podcast even more in house now! Each month, you’ve counted on the AP Podcast for a simple, free and easily compact delivery of Project Management Tipoffs and – more...
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The Careers Adviser Podcast: Sector Changes
Our newer version of the Arras People Podcast publishes every second Thursday of each month (subscribe to our podcast feed here or on iTunes), and our latest episode is in the hands of our own Lindsay...
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Budget, Sponsorship, Projects and Olympic Teams: A Study in Contrast
For more about this month’s edition of Project Management Tipoffs, check out the podcast As you might have discovered in reading my article from the July issue of project management tipoffs, there are...
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A New Addition to the Vodcast – Arras People Hits YouTube!
We’re very proud to be able to offer you a new social media tool for interacting with Arras People. That’s right, folks: we’re finally tapping the YouTube barrel! Over the last year, Arras People have...
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Tipoffs for June Out in 1 Week
Project Management Tipoffs is back for June next Thursday, tackling matters related to career development. For this issue, we’ve tapped the expertise of some members of our Training Directory, who were...
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Tipoffs Gets All Political and Stuff!
Time once again for our monthly, “one week from now, you could be getting great advice” post about Project Management Tipoffs, the renowned project management & recruitment newsletter from Arras...
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Don’t forget your soft skills!
When it comes to career development, it is easy to focus on the technical aspects of a particular role and easy to lose sight of the soft skills that are just as important, if not more so, in terms of...
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NLP & Changing Your Communications Behaviours
Ranjit Sidhu of ChangeQuest, a training company with the aim of sharing what drives the true nature of communications within projects, has carved an enviable niche in the project management profession....
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The Stakeholder Rundown
Managed successfully or to failure, all projects ultimately have consequences – not just on the resources you are using, but on the people who feel the effects of the project. These people have...
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Thinking About PPM Education
For those of you keen on our monthly newsletter, Project Management Tipoffs, you might know that we try to keep our readers abreast of what’s happening in both project management & PPM related...
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Tools and Psychological Tidbits for Stakeholder Engagement
In terms of a project’s best interests, stakeholders are invariably different in influence or interest level. For all project leaders, the determination of how to handle these principals is, as you...
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Tipoffs Out Next Thursday
For Project Management Tipoffs, the monthly newsletter of project management & recruitment issues, we’re easing into holiday mood. Picture us rolling. Re-read this post, close your eyes and picture...
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Stakeholder Management and the Politically Savvy
It’s a common cause of project failure directly attributable to us human beings if it is not carried out effectively. It’s considered to be one of the arts of project management – not a science. It...
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Extolling Stakeholder Management Skills in a CV
“How do I make myself effectively come across on a CV as having strong stakeholder management (or perhaps even just strong people) skills?” – Mike, Kent Steve Trippier of Arras People says: Hi Mike,...
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