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Project Management Apprenticeships: A UK Guide

Rebel’s Guide to PM

They are also great for people who haven’t had the opportunity for much formal training – like accidental PMs or those who did their formal training in another discipline and have moved to project leadership as a second career. Different industries will influence that and there is a minimum salary set by the government.

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What Is a Balanced Scorecard? (Example & Template Included)

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It’s a common management tool worldwide, used across industries, including government and nonprofit organizations. The balanced scorecard measures four aspects of a business or organization: finance, customers, business processes and learning and growth. Norton is a founder and director of the Palladium Group.

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Project Management Job Titles: Understanding the Types of Roles in Project Management

Rebel’s Guide to PM

He managed all the logistics for the project including booking rooms for testing and training, making sure the right delegates showed up to the training, supporting them with claiming expenses, organizing project boards, steering groups and other governance milestones, and generally making everyone’s lives easier.

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What Is a Project Director? Role, Responsibilities and Salary

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Project directors are responsible for the successful conclusion of the project by providing leadership, strategically managing risk, monitoring finances and making sure that each phase of the project starts and ends on schedule. Create budget and monitor finances to ensure you keep to the budget.

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Project Boards and Project Steering Groups: An Introduction

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Strong leadership in projects is important for success, so getting your project board and/or project steering group set up as soon as you can is a good start. Here’s an introduction to these important groups as part of the governance framework so you can get yours set up and working on your project. What is a project board?

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Exploring the differences: Projects vs operations examples

Rebel’s Guide to PM

For example, in the UK, the Infrastructure and Projects Authority manages projects and shares best practices for UK government projects. In the United States, the Government Accountability Office publishes regular reports into major projects. These are all great sources of examples of projects.

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“Organize Around Products/Services” is a great addition to the Disciplined Agile principles

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It also addresses many challenges which leadership teams experience with agile transformations. Such transformations require change to happen in not only the delivery teams within an enterprise, but also supporting functions such as finance, human resources, operations and procurement.

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