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Project professionals value work/life balance over pay and career progression
By Louise Capone, Head of Progility Recruitment | 29 September 2015
A recent survey by Progility Recruitment reveals that work/life balance is the top consideration among project managers and PMOs looking to change jobs. When asked to specify what was most important when looking for a new job 46% of respondents said that work/life balance was top of their lis...
[Continue reading...]Navigating through Agile – asking the right questions
By Steve Boronski, PRINCE2 Agile lead trainer at ILX Group | 24 August 2015
In June 2015, PRINCE2 AgileTM was born, combining the best of both the PRINCE2® and the Agile worlds. Project managers and organisations who have thrown their lot in with agile approaches or methodologies could be forgiven for being confused about what PRINCE2 Agile offers that is not covered by Agi...
[Continue reading...]Achieving business agility right through the project management lifecycle
By Andy West, Consultant at ILX Group | 19 August 2015
Greek philosophers knew that change is the only constant in life and the maxim has never held truer than in today’s business environment. The pace of change has accelerated and organisations have trimmed themselves to the bone to stay competitive and agile but too often they have trimmed not just th...
[Continue reading...]Leaders are made not born – developing emotional intelligence in project management
By Russell Kenrick, Managing Director at ILX Group | 18 August 2015
Some people have more emotional intelligence than others. This does not mean that they have a mystic ability to read other people’s thoughts. Emotional intelligence is as much to do with understanding yourself as it is to do with understanding someone else’s beliefs and motivations. Project m...
[Continue reading...]PRINCE2 Agile – conflict becomes collaboration
By Russell Kenrick, Managing Director at ILX Group | 10 August 2015
Until recently project managers followed either the PRINCE2® methodology or were advocates of agile. Any gathering of project managers would be painfully like a school disco, with agile aficionados lining one wall and PRINCE2 cliques lining the other. Of course, in reality everyone had shared goals...
[Continue reading...]Plugging the skills gap – what skills are organisations looking for?
By Russell Kenrick, Managing Director at ILX Group | 3 August 2015
It doesn’t matter how well project managers understand the methodologies – if they can’t communicate with people in the project, fail to lead from the front and don’t have a sound understanding of the commercial place of the project within the organisation they will not be successful. How can we cre...
[Continue reading...]Project management –an ecosystem not a function
By ILX Team | 15 July 2015
Successful programme and project management is a complicated and organic process. It is an ecosystem that needs intelligent design if it is to come to fruition, aided by the warmth and light of good leadership, fertilised by effective project management. Sending people on box ticking training cours...
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