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Strategic Business Analysis

The Expert BA plays a key role in helping organisations develop and realise their strategic goals. Find out more, click the button below to download our PDF:

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If you are involved in dealing with Outsourcing, Software Providers, Service Providers or almost any other party required to manage and deliver IT services, ITIL is often the common language. Read our ‘Top 8 Tips for Passing the Exam‘ so you can begin your path to ITIL® Accreditation. Attempt as many sample questions as possible. The questions

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Flying High

PM-PARTNERS NEW AD CAMPAIGN FLYING HIGH. Please allow us to reintroduce ourselves. No, it’s not just a vanity project. The objective of our brand spanking new advertising campaign, soon to be seen in Qantas’ in-flight magazine, is to inform both existing and prospective clients about our scope of operations: many know us as a training organisation,

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Projects drive business performance and results through change – we need the right people to manage the right initiatives at the right time. When you select the right outsourcing partner you will be getting access to a specialist team with a wide range of skills all in one place. These specialist skills may not be required

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When businesses merge, they have the option of either choosing one service to stick to, or combining both operations so that they complement one another. The latter has been carried out to great effect by the PM-Partners group. Founded in 1996, PM Partners was a combination of three individual businesses. Each had a specific specialty:

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Scrum Australia 2013

Scrum Australia 2013 – Press Release Australia’s first Scrum conference to be held in April Monday Feb 25, Sydney The global Scrum Alliance in conjunction with Scrum Australia are proud to bring to Australia the highly interactive Scrum Gathering® experience as run around the world since 2004. Scrum Australia 2013 is a two day conference

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PMOs and P3O® – The benefits for you and your organisation PMOs can be structured in various ways from a person performing multiple functions, to a single centralised support office, through to a set of distributed offices offering decision-enabling and support services.  The Portfolio, Programme and Project Offices (P3O) guide from AXELOS brings present guidance

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Advanced Terminology of Project Management

The need-to-know terms for a Business-minded Project Manager Just when you think you have a comprehensive understanding of the standard acronyms encountered within the project management landscape, you discover there’s more lurking out there! This is where we can assist you by staying up-to-date with current terms of everything Project Management related. In today’s environment,

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Bias Driving Failure Approximately 70% of projects either fail or are delivered late. This figure is consistent with research by PM-Partners group and international bodies which identified cognitive biases and organisational issues being a key factor adversely impacting the production of accurate and reliable benefits forecasts and business cases. A cognitive bias is a pattern

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Moving Beyond a Failed Project

It is common during times of economic downturn and uncertainty for businesses to reduce headcount in order to save money. Sound logic as workplace productivity typically increases during economic downturn. However the PMO can become challenged as under-staffed projects can lead to missed deliverables, costly delays or at worst, complete project failure. The reality of

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