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IT Governance Evangelist

The IT Governance Evangelist is an IT governance best practice blog run by Steve Romero of CA, Inc. Steve uses IT Governance Evangelist to act as a strong advocate for the customer, speaking around the world to users, prospective clients, industry organizations and IT luminaries to identify and communicate IT governance best practices. Steve says [...]

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Alec Satin on People, Projects and Processes

Alec Satin on People, Projects and Process premiered in January 2008 under Satin’s direction as a medium for the veteran project manager and organisational expert to connect with fellow project managers with tips and advice.
Alec is a trained therapist, entrepreneur and Information Technology professional, saying that he seeks to infuse environments with order, process and [...]

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International Project Management Communications

International Project Management Communications is a new project management blog from Francis Norman focused on communications in international projects. Created in January 2010, Francis posts a series of articles discussing the various aspects and influences on successful international project communications and obstacles to being successful in the field
Francis is a project manager and engineer with [...]

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My Project Management Expert

My Project Management Expert, by Susan de Sousa, is published regularly with the hopes of promoting project management to the masses, whether that audience includes students to season professional PPM personnel.
Susan is an interim Program Manager with 13 years experience delivering large, high profile business change and technology programmes for clients in UK, US and [...]

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The Lazy Project Manager

The Lazy Project Manager by Peter Taylor is one of many tools this veteran of project management has going in conjunction with his industry-acclaimed book of the same name that can be had at the website of the same name. He also hosts free podcasts, available on iTunes.
Peter is a dynamic and commercially astute professional [...]

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The Enterprise Navigation

The Enterprise Navigator, by Terry Doerscher, includes subjects related to business management and integration, with an emphasis on topics related to portfolio management and the modern PMO. Terry says Enterprise Navigator is intended to be informative and educational, presented in a light hearted, entertaining manner.
Terry spearheads posts at Enterprise Navigator, as a subsidiary of Planview. [...]

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The Tao of Project Management

The Tao of Project Management, by John Carroll, places an emphasis on the importance of soft skills so crucial to managing projects that can be often ignored in the place of hard skills and methodologies.
John is a veteran project manager, PM consultant and trainer with over 35 years of experience in the field. He has [...]

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The APM Blog

The APM Blog is one of the most recent additions to the PPM blogosphere, opening up shop in March 2010. Edited by Owain Wilson, the blog features many featured writers and personalities from both the Association for Project Management and Project magazine, including Liz Wilson, Julie Legge and Andrew Bragg.
Recognising the abundance of PPM-based websites, [...]

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Ppm localgovcamp

Ppm localgovcamp is the website for the upcoming PPM event hosted by site author Jon Hyde in Cheltenham this April. It is featured as one of our upcoming events on ppmcommunity.com.
Jon, the Programme Manager for Cheltenham Borough Council, established ppm localgovcamp in February 2010 “to publicize the p3m3 event that I’ve organised for public sector [...]

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Project Management 2.0

Project Management 2.0, authored by Andrew Filev, reflects the views of an experienced project manager and a successful entrepreneur. Andrew has been managing software teams since 2001 with the help of new-generation collaboration and management applications. Project Management 2.0 reflects his views on changes going on in contemporary project management, thanks to the influence of [...]

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Lifelong Project

Lifelong Project, by Joseph Phillips, is not merely intended for the likes of the project and programme management community:  it is also about one man’s vision to rise above his own struggles and use project management ideals as a basis for a re-shaping of one’s own path. In his own words, Joseph says Lifelong Project [...]

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Project Management Bistro

Project Management Bistro, the blog PM Boulevard, is co-edited by Jennifer Girdish. PM Bistro began publishing with the hope of expanding the reach of PM Boulevard to a wider audience in project and programme management.
“PM Bistro is the blog of PM Boulevard, so that we can further the conversation within the PM community,” Jennifer says. [...]

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Managing the Work

Managing the Work, the blog from the team at Daptiv, began publishing posts in October 2009 under the guidance of Monica Miller. Daptiv specialises in improving collaborative work management, and the directives of Managing the Work encompass project management professionals, as well as a variety of other management professions hoping to collaborate in an effective [...]

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Shift Happens!

Shift Happens!, by Mike Clayton, focuses on projects, change and risk. Clayton, an author and public speaker with a background in managing business projects and integrating complex change, says he will “pick up on any topic related to these which interests me.”
Shift Happens! premiered in October 2009 under Mike’s direction. He has been around project [...]

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Stepping Into Project Management

Stepping into Project Management is the blog dedicated to newbies in project management. Starting in 2008 and written by Soma Bhattacharya, Soma shares her own personal journey in project management with readers.
When she suddenly stepped into project management having heard a little about it, she wanted to learn more. Whilst researching on the web, all [...]

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Instructing.com

Instructing.com is a bevy of free project management resources from Joseph Phillips and offers a series of PMP Training Videos absolutely free. There’s no gimmicks, no forms, no emails. Just click, watch, and learn. Joseph started the blog back in December 2008 to share his views on project management, communicate with existing and potential clients, [...]

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ProjectOffices.com

ProjectOffices.com is a blog focused on the topic of PMO or Programme Management Offices, Project Offices, P3O’s or just about any other name you can come up with! Created by Lindsay Scott from Arras People, Lindsay wanted a dedicated blog for a subject she feels very passionate about and a place to write about recent [...]

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Project Management for Girls

A Girl’s Guide to Project Management, by Elizabeth Harrin, is one of the most highly regarded blogs by project managers with a renowned author and project management lifer spearheading its constant feed.
Elizabeth is based in London, and boasts of several credentials of high standing: she is a founder member of PMI’s New Media Council, a member [...]

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Back from Red

The Back from Red Blog, is a popular project management blog which brings together thirty years of program and project management experience from Todd C. Williams. Back from Red started in August 2009 and gains its title from Todd’s experience in recovering “red projects” .”From this experience, I have developed a process to make recoveries [...]

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One Less Cut in a Thousand

One Less Cut in a Thousand by Tim Sharpe was restarted in 2010 after a hiatus with the intention of reaching out in what Tim affectionately refers to as “grumpy old man” railing at poor management tactics. Expect no punches to be pulled.
“One Less Cut in a Thousand is about, because of, for, or involving [...]

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PM Student

PM Student by Josh Nankivel, PMP, is a blog about continuing professional development in project management focused on helping new and aspiring project managers to reach their goals.
Josh has spent a decade of his career span been managing IT and non-IT projects in Computing, Financial Services, Telecommunications, and Aerospace. A South Dakota native, Josh jokes [...]

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Thoughts of a Project Manager

Thoughts of a Project Manager by Ryan Endres began publishing in February 2008 with the intent of reaching project managers through the experience of one 12 year veteran of the PPM trade.
Ryan is an accomplished Programme Manager who has worked primarily in pharmaceuticals and biotech. PMP and Yellow Belt Six Sigma certified with a Masters certificate [...]

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PM in Focus

PM in Focus, by Vincent Birlouez features monthly posts from the veteran PMP and CMS certified IT project manager who felt he had a wealth of experience and knowledge to bestow upon fellow practitioners in and around PPM when he debuted the site in mid 2008. Like any good self-marketer, Vincent uses PM in Focus for [...]

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Software Project Management

Software Project Management is a blog dedicated (and the clue is in the title) to all issues related to managing software projects. There are a range of topics including but not limited to project management, software development, team building and managing a software company. Software Project Management was started by Pawel Brodzinski back in Spring [...]

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Change Through Action

Change Through Action is a pragmatic and constructive change and leadership blog from Deanne Earle which started in July 2009. Change Through Action is a way for Deanne to share her experience and generate constructive debate to a wider audience interested in project delivery, leadership and coaching & mentoring.The Change Through Action blog is for [...]

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OnePlace

OnePlace is the blog for the American company of the same name, a small business solutions provider that focuses on improving the success of the individual through organisation features including proiject management, team management and collaboration, online communication and file sharing.
With three main collaborators on the blog (including OnePlace co-founders Steve Kickert and Denis Ahern, [...]

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BradEgeland.com

BradEgeland.com, by Brad Egeland, is about bringing real world project management information to the masses. Currently working on an independent basis, the native of Las Vegas and IT/Project Management consultant and author has over 24 years of development and management experience in sectors ranging from Manufacturing to Higher Education to Aviation and Airline, and many more.
Egeland writes for a [...]

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The Critical Path by Derek Huether

The Critical Path, by Derek Huether is a project management leadership blog for both up-and-coming Project Managers and established Project Managers. Derek started Critical Path back in 2008 because he wanted to share his thoughts with a wider audience but felt that writing a book would take too long and be too tedious a process.
Derek [...]

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Papercut Edge

Papercut Edge, is a relative newcomer to the project management blogging scene but has made a great impact for its focus on the soft skills side of PM and a blogger with a great sense of humour. Geoff Crane started the blog in November 2009 primarily to promote his  coaching business but quickly found a [...]

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How to Manage a Camel

How to Manage a Camel, the project management and recruitment issues blog for Arras People, began publishing posts in September 2006 under the guidance of Arras People co-director Lindsay Scott and with posts from Arras staff. Four years later, Scott has hired a co-editor, expanded the breadth of writing talent to include a variety of PPM-related guest posters, [...]

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No Secret

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Why recommend No Secret?
Good insights from seasoned professional. Very reasonable approach. Updated often.
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Robert Dempsey Blog

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Why recommend Robert Dempsey’s blog?
Down-to-earth approach to agile project management. Good and frequent posting.
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Project Shrink

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Why recommend Project Shrink?
Good content with free podcasts of interviews with all sorts of people from the PM community.  Bas is also a member of the PMI new media council.
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Thanks to PaperCut PM

Papercut Edge blog wrote a great piece on PPMCommunity.com *blush*. This is  our first mention on a PPM blog which is fantastic! The PPMCommunity.com is all about promoting the numerous programme and project management related blogs that exist, to help readers find the ones which are really useful to them in their career. So far [...]

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