News Archive 2011

The 9th annual graduate of the year (2011) awards took place in Dublin on December 6th. These awards are designed to recognise and honour excellence in project management.

Ed Naughton recieved the honorary Award for his contribution to the development of project management in Ireland over the last thirty years.

Using the game of golf to illustrate a flexible nine-step approach to managing projects, "Keeping Score: Project Management for the Pros" is a unique book for project team members and team leaders, as well as sponsors and senior executives.

Three recently accredited IPMA Level B professionals – each from radically different sectors - explains the rationale for
pursuing this qualification.

This growing demand for project management has spawned a great increase in the need for project management education, certification and training.

60 delegates from countries as far afield as Brazil and China convened in Dublin to commence work on the latest version (4.0) of the IPMA Competence Baseline known throughout the world as ICB.

This is the Institute’s seventh annual report on the Irish Project Management community and is jointly undertaken by the Institute of Project Management and UCC Dept. of Management and Marketing.

An IPMA team of international experts met in Dublin. We invited them to share their views with you on what is available and explore with them what is happening in the whole area of international certification of project managers.

There’s growing evidence that ways of working are adapting to include social media tools and that they are becoming prevalent in the workplace.

Not all  forms of project management training are created equal - or are even effective.

Organisations need to deliver their business objectives with greater focus and agility, portfolio management is an ideal tool for helping organisations to overcome this challenge .

The Dublin cohort of the Certified Project Management  Diploma will be given a best in class presentation by Mike O’Brochta

The Strategic Project Management Diploma is an innovative, first in-kind  offering in Ireland that
provides professionals with advanced tools and techniques to strategically execute projects, programs, and portfolios.

Approximately 30% of the PMP exam content will change as a result of changes made to the PMP Role Delineation Study.

The Institute of Project Management and UCC Department of Management and Marketing have been undertaking a benchmarking survey for the last six years.

The Certified Project Management Diploma provides participants with immediate international accreditation into a community of 120,000 project management professionals from 50 countries.