Category: Articles
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Causes of Project Failure
Managing complex projects in any industry is tough. Achieving success in long-term projects is even tougher. But why is project management such a difficult thing to get right? Many complex, long-term projects fail to live up to their promises and produce disappointing outcomes on completion. Some of these are well-known for exceeding their budgets or…
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The Importance of Professional Project Management
Private companies and government organisations involved in running large projects, or many smaller projects at the same time, already recognise the benefits of formal project management and relevant training for those involved in projects. Whether that’s the APM Project Fundamentals Qualification for those new to project management or more advanced accreditation such as the APM…
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The Perfect Business Requirements Document
A Business Requirements Document is a formal document that effectively provides a contract between a “supplier” and a “client”. The “client” is typically a business department and the “supplier” is the company or other business department that will create and deliver the new product, system or process. The document describes in detail every business need…
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Training Courses via Podcasts
Podcasting is one of the most exciting forms of communicating to an audience to have emerged in recent years. Many types of businesses as well as the government and people in education have discovered the advantages of delivering their messages to their listeners at a time and in a place that suits them. Any time…
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Business Requirements Analysis and Why It’s Important
Every project needs a business requirements specification document because it is the formal agreement between the client/end-users, the business owner/stakeholder and the project manager. It states exactly what will and will not be included in a project and what the end-user can expect once the project is completed. This is true for projects that are…