CredAbility : New Pricing Structure
Thursday, 14 October 2010 23:46 Written by Webmaster
Problems in Project Management
Sunday, 06 June 2010 23:41 Written by Webmaster
However, in the last few days an survey occurred on LinkedIn that resulted in almost 200 Portfolio and Project Managers all voicing their top 3 reasons why projects fail.
Whilst an interesting read, this article will aim to bring those responses together and consider the statistics that they suggest.
- 91 (17.2%) ..... People
- 71 (13.5%) ..... Management
- 69 (13.0%) ..... Communication
The full resutls can be seen in the following article.
Dignitas & CredAbility at the Portfolio Management Conference
Thursday, 04 March 2010 23:39 Written by Webmaster
Following on from its attendance at the Association of Project Management Conference back in October 2009, Dignitas and CredAbility are pleased to announce that they will be attending the Portfolio Management Conference at the Business Centre in London on 31st March 2010. In 2009 the OGC Portfolio Management Guidance (Public Consultation Draft) was launched and the focus of the conference was “What is Portfolio Management”? We are now in a different place, people have been using it and getting real benefits from it, so with this in mind the 2010 Conference focuses on showcasing examples of what these people have done, the experiences they have gained and the lessons they have learned. In 2010 the Portfolio Management Guidance will be upgraded to form a formal part of the OGC’s Best Practice Guidance. Craig Kilford and Stephen Jenner are confirmed as co-authors of this next stage and we are very pleased that both will be in attendance during the 2010 Conference. Craig Kilford will be chairing the Conference and Stephen Jenner will be speaking.
Managing Director, Craig Golby said, "Our attendance at the APM Conference was well received and we had some excellent feedback on our product CredAbility. In attending the Portfolio Management Conference we are hoping to generate the same kind of feedback and to further demonstrate how CredAbility can support the Portfolio approach to Project Management.
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Dignitas secures Stand 1 at the annual APM Project Management Conference
Tuesday, 11 August 2009 23:37 Written by Webmaster
Dignitas is pleased to announce that it has secured Stand One at The Association for Project Management Conference - Delivering Projects Professionally.
The conference will take place on October 21st at The Brewery, London. In an extract from the APM Conference Web Site it is described as follows ...
The APM Project Management Conference 2009 is an interactive forum that will provide you with an insight into the development of effective project professionals.It will address issues including project sponsorship, training and development, growing the skill-set of project professionals and the benefits of the new chartered status.
Information will be made available relating to the Professional Services offerred by the Dignitas Team, but also and more importantly, about the Project Control Tool, CredAbility.
Further information can be found at the APM Conference Web Site here.
Project Community
Wednesday, 10 June 2009 23:32 Written by Webmaster
The term "Project Community" is becoming more and more common place in "Project" talk, but I wondered what this actually means ....
There seems to be no absolute definition of what a "Community" is however Wikipedia suggests that the most common interpretation is "a group of interacting people living in a common location".
So how do we translate this into a Project environment, well lets just do it literally.
A Project Community would be "a group of interacting people working on a common project".
So you will note that the first half of the statement remains unchanged, that part being "a group of interacting people". This must be the case in any Project Team, if the team are not interacting, then the project will be on a road to failure.
The second half of the statement has changed, from "living in a common location" to "working on a common project". Many people living in a common location, or working on a common project does not constitute a community. In the background to all of this, a community watches out for its members and helps each other. Simply living or working in a group does not ensure this happens. And this brings us back to the Interaction.
So it seems that the phrase "a group of interacting people working on a common project" can be used to explain the term Project Community, but how do we make this fundamental requirement happen ??
Promote interaction between your team members, ensure there are regular meetings. Where there are disagreements, don't let these boil over into a situation that splits the team apart. Work through the options and get everyone to buy into the majority answer.
Where geography causes problems, make use of voice or video conferencing, there are so many options on the Internet today, many of them are free, or certainly cheaper than a gallon of petrol.
Make use of a tool that allows all parties, no matter how they are distributed across the globe, to see the current status of your Project and to update any elements that they own.
Our own tool, CredAbility, uses the term "Project Community" to describe the individuals assigned to a Project, no matter what they're position within a single organisation or across multiple organisations working together.
That said a tool such as ours only facilitates the creation of a Project Community, actual success can only be achieved by the people themselves.
Which would you rather have, a "Project Team" which is defined as "a group of people linked in a common purpose" or a "Project Community" which I define here as "a group of interacting people working on a common project" ???
SQNB@bble, Twitter and Co
Tuesday, 12 May 2009 23:25 Written by Webmaster
THere are many tools out there today and we got ourselves a little lost amongst them all, however SQNBabble sorted us out.
Consider it a Hub. You register as normal with SQNBabble, Twitter, Friendfeed, Plurk, Tumblr and Facebook in preparation for your business. Then you go into the Connections Tab of SQNBabble and provide all of the logon information for the other services.
Then, when you put an entry into SQN, it is cascaded out to the others in a matter of seconds. Its excellent, and like so many of the excellent services out there, it is free !!!
We will now be using it as a major communication stream, providing notifications of changes to our web site and new news or blog items, such as this one for instance !!!
Oh and support, fantastic, we raised a call because we were having trouble connecting to Plurk. It seems that the Plurk API had changed. SQN had it identified, fixed and tested in less than half a day. Better than a lot of paid for services !!!
