Posted by Kevin Brady on Mon 6th October 2008 at 04:03 PM, Filed in Industry News
Last Week I attended the Project Expo 2008 at Olympia for Project and Programme Managers. This is the best FREE industry show in the South of the UK. If you are an experienced or aspiring project /programme manager this is a must, and certainly worth a train ticket and a day off work.
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Fri 3rd October 2008 at 11:22 AM, Filed in Book Reviews
Author - Melanie Franklin –The author’s name is buried on page 6 of the book, where she gets a mention in the acknowledgments. All a little strange perhaps until you read the acknowledgment a little further, where it is revealed that the Office of Government and Commerce (OGC) commissioned her to design and develop the book under contract. Melanie is well known in the training industry as a management trainer in her own right and the owner of Maven Training Ltd. She is also the author /co-author on a number of MSP and PRINCE 2 related publications many of which have been recently published and will be reviewed in later posts.
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Fri 3rd October 2008 at 10:44 AM, Filed in Book Reviews
Five Stars
If you see a book with this rating, go out and buy it now, if you have the money! If you don’t (have the money), go and ‘steal’ or borrow a copy. It really is a ‘classic’, and you should have it in your library. Five star books should be regarded as an essential read for anyone wanting to develop their career as a Project /Programme Management Professional. You will not regret it.
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I have recently received emails from readers saying that they don’t understand how MSP Quality management works together with PRINCE 2 quality management. The overwhelming feeling seems to be that quality in PRINCE 2 and MSP are incompatible.
To sort this issue out one needs to go back to basics 
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Posted by Kevin Brady on Wed 24th September 2008 at 12:15 AM, Filed in Templates
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Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) is really gaining traction these days as a Professional Programme Management Framework, even if its focus is on change management. The fact is that there is currently little else being offered by the management institutes which better explains the inner workings of “best practice” programmes of work. Sad but true :(
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