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Parallel Training Project Management Blog
From beginner’s guides to breakdowns of advanced topics, our blog covers key project management topics. These can supplement your learning on one of our project management training courses, or provide a starting point for your own project management learning.
Change Management: A Beginner’s Guide
Change management is arguably one of the most important project management processes. Change is at the heart of every project. […]
Tips to Pass the APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ)
Introduction If you’re preparing for the APM Project Professional Qualification (PPQ) 2nd edition assessment, this blog post aims to offer […]
Workstream or Work Package: Which is right for you?
On the radio the other day, I heard a senior civil servant discussing the workstreams in a project, which led […]
Encouraging Collaboration Within Your Project Team
When the responsibility of the success of a project rests on your shoulders you need to encourage collaboration on your […]
Estimating Techniques: A Beginner’s Guide
Estimating is an essential part of project management planning. Learning how to perform and understand an estimate is a critical […]
Effective Time Management – The Basics
Learning the art of good time management is the key to success in any career. But perhaps it is more […]
Project Quality: A Beginner’s Guide
Introduction Project quality is a key cornerstone of any project, governing the standards that our project will be measured against. […]
Benefits Management: A Beginner’s Guide
Introduction The point of undertaking any project is to introduce a change that will have a resulting benefit. A benefit […]
Project Scope: A Beginner’s Guide
Introduction Project scope can be defined as all of the work that will be undertaken and products that will be […]
An Action Plan for Overcoming Project Overload: My Experience
I had an intriguing meeting this week with a client. We discussed challenges their organisation was facing: the entire team […]
5 Reasons Why Change Control Is Important For Projects.
Here is an example answer provided by a delegate on one of our project management courses in London to the […]
Resource Management: A Beginner’s Guide
Our project resources are the things that we require to complete the project work. Resources include both physical and human […]