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Public Sector Executive, a leading publication reporting on the public spending of leading authorities in interviews Remploy and CITI on delivering significant and traumatic change in one of the UK's most sensitive organisations. ...

Features articles on: undertaking transformational programmes, Remploy's modernisation programme and PSOs and PMOs - what's the difference? ...

The differences are substantial, yet to the untrained eye they appear subtle. A PSO is all about supporting projects, usually in a multiple-project environment. This environment is frequently called a portfolio....

Programmes, real programmes that deliver new capability and whose success is measured in delivered change, are not only difficult, they are genuinely complex. Predicting organisational behaviour when it is undertaking a transformational programme is hard. ...

Features articles on: sponsorship, professionalising project management and project complexity....

In June 2008 the MSc Managing Major Projects and Programmes was validated by Middlesex University. The MSc is a joint programme offered by CITI and the National Centre for Project Management, which is based at Middlesex University. ...

High speed 1 is the UK's first high-speed rail line linking London to the European network - it is also the first new British railway in 100 years and is the UK's largest ever single construction project. ...

The attractive notion of ‘best practice’ within each business sector has created an eager market for models, methods and comparative measures. We all feel safest when following a proven path, so the creation and sponsorship of these ‘maturity models’ by professional bodies seems to give us ‘legitimate’ external standards to judge against. The score, rating ...

It turns out that availability isn’t a project management competency – but what is? In an analysis of a survey of 500 companies we ran recently, there was a distinct trend for organisations to now recruit project managers to project management roles – which is a good thing. But, what is a little worrying is that there is no consensus about exactly what ski...

Features articles on: project management competency, Eurostar's High Speed 1 programme, sponsorship of ‘maturity models’, CITI's research project with Middlesex University....