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The project manager has two responsibilities: not only someone “who plans, procures and executes a project’ but also a person who often manages a team.

Whether you’re an independent contractor or long-term employee, how should you deal with recruitment agencies? Knowing how to best work with recruitment agencies can be complicated – but these questions and answers are a start.

The Beatles song ‘A day in the life’ told us about the ‘Four thousand holes in Blackburn Lancashire…and though the holes were rather small, they had to count them all; now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall’.

There are many different ‘types’ of project manager – they all have the same core skills, but emphasise different aspects to suit their roles.

45% of project management professionals were sometimes or very dissatisfied with the current level of project management maturity in their organisation.

Two key messages about benefits management are emergingFirstly there is a direct correlation between effective benefits management and how successful an initiative is.

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Project management methods and frameworks are, we hope, evolving and improving all the time as more projects are completed and knowledge of best practises grows.

I have heard from a number of quarters that a strong, effective sponsor can make a significant difference to a project – the barriers can seem to melt away rather than continually build.

Projects are done by people, for people.