This is the first in a series of articles demystifying risk management in projects based on the Management of Risk (M_o_R®) Guidance. Just learn and apply these 7 basic principles to improve your project success rate! Taking and managing risk forms the very essence of business survival and growth. If you don’t take risks your [...]

Introduction Organizations require working project delivery frameworks to manage their projects of varied complexity, type and size. They want fast delivery of useful business products, whilst also recognizing the need for control, especially over costs, scope, quality and benefit potential. So speed on the one hand, a solution in the other, and governance balanced precariously [...]

Snap Tech and APMG International provide internationally accredited best practice training in qualifications such as PRINCE2®, MSP®, M_o_R® and MoP™. They have launched a new Agile Project Management training course and certification in South Africa, in recognition of the value many of the agile techniques such as Standups, Timeboxing and MOSCOW can add to project [...]

How many companies do you know that actively measure, track and report the benefits derived from projects and programmes? 1 in 8 at most, and yet the only reason we spend billions of project Rand’s every year is to realize a gain on our investments, whether it be an increase in sales or a new [...]

Snap Tech has updated its training in Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) to the 2011 version. MSP 2011 combines rigour and flexibility; it helps all organizations – public and private sector to achieve successful outcomes from their programme management time and time again. With change a pressing reality for all organizations, successful programme management has never [...]

During August 2011 Snap-Tech launched the APM Group’s Foundation and Practitioner level qualifications to support the new best practice “Management of Portfolios” guidance. This new Portfolio Management best practice guide will help senior executives and portfolio management practitioners to understand how implementing a Portfolio Management approach can address business challenges and deliver products and services [...]

APMG-International has an exclusive website for APMG-accredited exam candidates, as well as members of the Best Practice User Group – pm4success.com! You have an automatic 12-month subscription to pm4success.com from the date of your exam. You’ll find plenty of articles, papers and guidance on best practice in programme, project and risk management, as well as useful articles on [...]

This certificate follows the APMG-International’s and Office of Government Commerce’s P3O guidance. P3O is a set of principles, processes and techniques that facilitate effective portfolio, programme and project management through the enablement, challenge and support structures required to set up, re-energize and run appropriate support offices and Centre’s of Excellence. The P3O guidance applies to [...]

I’ve come to expect it by the end of the first project management training day. The enthusiastic project manager’s hand goes up and I’m asked “this is all good stuff, but does our senior management know what their project management responsibilities are”? Not always. So here are five of the key areas of project management [...]

Way back in 2001 I ran the first PRINCE2 course in South Africa. I still remember those first eight candidates who wrote and passed the tough essay style practitioner exam, thanks more to their pioneering enthusiasm than my recently acquired accredited trainer status. The group included the first African to achieve PRINCE2 practitioner status, and [...]