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Space Rockets and Kinky Boots by Adrian Taggart

When all the humdrum and frivolous distractions fall away, what overpowering passion drives you?  "Space Rockets and Kinky Boots" goes to the heart of what we hold most dear to us and what drives us in the workplace. With a quirky take on popular culture, it explores aspects of organisational culture and why project-based work is so different from more conventional types of employment. 

Sponsorship Discussion Document by John Bolton

The National Audit Office (NAO) identifies that sponsorship represents two of the primary reasons that projects and programmes fail to deliver their predicted benefits.  The Office of Government Commerce (OGC) emphasises the crucial role of the sponsor as vital.  Good project and programme sponsorship is the key link between the strategic organisational objectives and the vehicles that will deliver them - the projects.

Read our Discussion Document on Sponsorship.

First Engineering invests in project delivery by Adrian Taggart

First Engineering further enhance project management capability and work with PMProfessional's Rail Division to develop project management processes, procedures and training.

Traditional Team 1 - Virtual Team 0 by Kevin Daly

Never has the challenge for todays' Project Manager been so great.  Complex projects linking all parts of a global organisations' business processes together require the co-ordinated and directed activities of a multidisciplined team for completion on time, within budget and to the agreed scope.  Projects so far ranging in their impact within a typical multi-national organisation, that the days of the super project manager who knew the project inside out are long gone - the input of all the team from day one of the project is now vital.

The Perplexing Puzzle by Rob Wood (Feb 2006)

"You don’t have to be a psychologist to understand what makes people tick, but it could certainly help your project success if you can get to grips with their behaviour, as the people factor is common to the causes of failure" says Rob Wood.

APM Practitioner Qualification by Paula Nowell by Paula Nowell (June 2005)

"If you take the karaoke approach to aquiring qualification, there is no certainty that you will be able to put on a convincing performance as a project manager" says Paula Nowell.

Use our Earned Value Pocket Guide (May 2005)

Lean and meaningful - by Paul Naybour & Kevin Daley of PMProfessional Learning -July 2004

Paul and Kevin believe that 'lean' techniques could transform project management