Fresh Look – Is a series of articles taking a look at common topics to try to come up with some new ideas and insight into problems that seem to repeat themselves across many organisations. One of the great mysteries is why do we keep making the same mistakes or doing blindingly stupid things. The P3M […]
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Managing a Project Schedule
We wrote the planning book because we saw so many organisations struggling with the quality of their planning. Schedule problems normally happen because of a lack of preparation in the early stages of the project rather than issues with the schedule itself. We hope that these extracts will help to give you some ideas on how […]
Mapping Project Outcomes
We wrote the planning book because we saw so many organisations struggling with the quality of their planning. Schedule problems normally happen because of a lack of preparation in the early stages of the project rather than issues with the schedule itself. We hope that these extracts will help to give you some ideas on how […]
Our New Kid on the Block – APM Project Management Qualification
When we sat down to design our APM PMQ eLearning course a year ago, we decided not to follow the standard approach of converting our existing face-to-face course, but to create something really special. Rod Sowden, Aspire Europe MD said “Back in the day, when I did the PMQ equivalent, it was one of my […]
The Golden Thread of Planning
Back in 2008 Aspire Europe started delivering maturity assessments (using P3M3®), part of which is reviewing how effective organisations were at planning. Our experiences from these maturity assessments and working with clients, is that planning is an area of weakness for many organisations. this article goes back to basics and identifies one or two of the […]
How do I gather business requirements?
We wrote the planning book because we saw so many organisations struggling with the quality of their planning. Schedule problems normally happen because of a lack of preparation in the early stages of the project rather than issues with the schedule itself. We hope that these extracts will help to give you some ideas on how […]
How do I develop project estimates?
We wrote the planning book because we saw so many organisations struggling with the quality of their planning. Schedule problems normally happen because of a lack of preparation in the early stages of the project rather than issues with the schedule itself. We hope that these extracts will help to give you some ideas on how […]
What is Integrated Assurance?
Assurance – is it a bureaucratic burden or an effective way to avoid failure? It will largely depend on whether you are in a team being challenged or an executive with personal accountability for the result. Most organisations have a fragmented approach to how integrated assurance is achieved. To have an integrated approach requires multiple […]
How do I manage project stakeholders?
We wrote the planning book because we saw so many organisations struggling with the quality of their planning. Schedule problems normally happen because of a lack of preparation in the early stages of the project rather than issues with the schedule itself. We hope that these extracts will help to give you some ideas on how […]
Establishing Project Controls
We wrote the planning book because we saw so many organisations struggling with the quality of their planning. Schedule problems normally happen because of a lack of preparation in the early stages of the project rather than issues with the schedule itself. We hope that these extracts will help to give you some ideas on how […]