One of the interesting lessons that has intrigued us over the last year has been the role of leadership in relation to programmes. How many of you have worked on a programme where a major risk has materialised, but the programme board have been in denial? We don’t normally think of programme management and mountaineering […]
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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 […]
New Product Release – Better Business Cases
Aspire Europe are excited to announce a major enhancement to our eLearning product range. We have now completed a major revamp of our Business Case portfolio of materials, this investment has included: A new Fundamentals of Business Cases module which provides an overview of best practice. A completely new version of our APM Group Better […]
7 Deadly Sins – Business Case
Continuing our series of blogs entitled Seven Deadly Sins that lead to regular and highly predictable failure on range of topics. Today we are focusing on Business Case Management, an organisational ritual that doesn’t seem to stem the tide of failure despite the enormous amounts of time spent preparing them. Failing to maintain the business […]
Managing people and other resources
The value of the content of some of the best practice guides can often be lost in the detail of the manual and the focus on passing an exam. Therefore, we have pulled out some of the areas that we think will be of the most value to people so that they can act as […]
Managing project costs
Performance against forecasted budget is an essential reporting requirement. The main costs for a project will come under two headings: resources and assets. The control activities around costs are very much linked to the controls around time as the time required from the resources represents significant costs. If this is an area that you are […]
Establishing Project Objectives
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 Priorities
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 […]
Risk Management and UK Pandemic
We thought it would be interesting to put on our ‘Captain Hindsight’ hat to think about the information we have collated from recent press interviews and articles that we’ve picked up. Just for fun, we have taken the standard risk register headings and applied them to what we know now to help bring those headings to life.
Setting Project Tolerances
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 […]