November 2009 Newsletter




	November 2009 Newsletter Information and insights for the Program & Project Management Community

Featured Articles

   -  What is Methodology?

   -  PRINCE2 Common Mistakes

   - Featured case study

Hints and Tips

Tell us what you think

Annoucements

New PRINCE2 2009

The 2009 edition of the PRINCE2® method has just been published. These changes may affect you and the way your projects are managed. Read more...

PMI Global Congress 2010 - Melbourne

Innovate your usual approach to managing project constraints and achieve desired outcomes by coming to PMI Global Congress 2010—Asia Pacific. This three-day professional development event hosted by Project Management Institute (PMI) provides a focused environment for you to rethink the norm, connect with your peers, and reaffirm your professional commitment by building your knowledge and skills Read more...

Upcoming Training Calendar

Rational Management a MetaPM business offering PRINCE2® Foundation or Practitioner courses. Our December Courses have only a few spots vacant so hurry and book now and as they are filling fast! Follow the link to view our public training calendar Read more...

Welcome to the MetaPM November Newsletter

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favourable. - Seneca

For successful project delivery, an individual and organisation needs to establish project management standards and processes. Understanding these fundamentals will help manage the projects today and help pave a path to how one plans to manage projects in the future.

In this months newsletter we explore how the delivery of projects can be improved and hopefully give you some tips that may help drive your current project to greater success as well as help deliver value back to your organisation.

If you have any queries regarding any of the information contained in this newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact us

Featured Articles

What is Methodology?

We hear a lot of questions about methodologies in our business. What methodology should we be using? Should we adopt an established methodology or are we better to build our own customised framework? Do we even need a methodology? How can we use PRINCE2 or PMBoK if we want to adopt ‘Agile’ Development Techniques? To understand more about this interesting topic please follow the link. Read more...

Common mistakes in applying PRINCE2

The following presentation discusses the common mistakes in applying PRINCE2 throughout a project and provides some tips on how to avoid them. Read more...

Recent Case Study

MetaPM engaged to lead the program of work within a large State Government Department

Through our advisory and delivery service, MetaPM has worked with many organisations to help deliver projects. The enclosed case study provides a good example of the typical challenges faced by the public sector when commencing a large and complex project and the way that MetaPM applies it's experience and Project Management discipline to ensure that the Project has a greater chance of delivering success. Read more...

Hints and Tips

The following hints and tips have been used by our team; we hope you find them useful.

5 Tips to help develop Project Culture – The following document outlines MetaPM’s top five tips to help develop project culture within your organisation.

For more hints and tips please visit our website. Read more....

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'Simplicity is about subtracting
the obvious, and adding the
meaningful' - John Maeda