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Olympic Park team wins three APM awards The body responsible for building the London 2012 Olympic Park won three times at last night’s APM Project Management Awards . The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) won two awards for their construction programme of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and also walked away with a special recognition award. After winning Programme of the Year ODA chief executive Dennis Hone collected the special recognition award from the ceremony’s host, TV presenter Chris Hollins. Dennis was joined on stage with colleagues from the construction and transport departments who were all involved in one of the biggest and most successful projects this country has ever seen and the learning legacy it left behind. ODA chairman Sir John Armitt CBE also won the ‘lifetime achievement’ award for his outstanding contribution to the project management profession. APM president Dr Martin Barnes CBE was filmed presenting Sir John, an Honorary Fellow of APM, with his Sir Monty Finniston Award. Sir John, who was unable to make the ceremony on the evening, said: “For me this is a fantastic award. Read More »

Today is International Project Management Day – happy celebrations to everyone but I suspect a large majority of project people will be heads down and getting on with delivery today. Prehaps you could buy a cake for your team or a round of drinks on you. I would love to be a fly on the wall when you tell your team its a day for celebrating the all round brilliancies of project managers In the UK today, the PMI celebrate International Project Management Day with their one day conference – PMI Synergy. If you weren’t able to make it there today there will be plenty of tweets via Twitter so you can keep up to date with what’s going on – just following the hashtag  #PMIUKSynergy or follow me @projectmgmt This year’s celebrations have the theme – The Power of the Profession and there are a number of events happening around the world – check out the International Project Management Day website There’s also a virtual celebration happening over at IIL too – a free event that they hope will attract 50,000 PMs online, find out more at: The Power of the Profession   The Power of the Profession No Related Posts Read More »

…Funmi Oyeyinka of Essex and Emilie Vaillant of London! Funmi and Emilie was selected from a collection of hundreds of participants in the premier edition of the Prize Draw commemorating the latest monthly edition of the 10th Birthday Celebration from Arras People . As was the case last month, hundreds took part in the October contest, with several repeat participants from the first four months of competition. Check out PMI UK Synergy 2012 next Thursday, 1st November, at IndigO2, London. As our grand prize winners, Emilie and Funmi have both won free tickets to PMI Synergy 2012 , courtesy of PMI UK Chapter . Many thanks to our sponsors this month, and as a courtesy to those of you interested in this second annual extravaganza for project management, click here to learn more. Well done to both Funmi and Emilie – and as ever, many congratulations as always to all of our Ten in Ten winners and participants.   NOVEMBER SURVEY FORMALLY OPENS TODAY With a new month approaching, Arras People are pleased to offer the ninth competition of the Ten in Ten: Grand Prize Draw .  APMG International are pleased to offer one lucky winner coverage of the cost of a combined (foundation and practitioner) accredited training course through any of APMG’s Accredited Training Organizations (ATOs). Read More »

…Chris Duffin of London!!! Chris was selected from a collection of hundreds of participants in the premier edition of the Prize Draw commemorating the latest monthly edition of the 10th Birthday Celebration from Arras People . As was the case last month, hundreds took part in the September contest, with several repeat participants from the first four months of competition. As our grand prize winner, Chris has won a free place on an Agile Project Management course, delivered by the highly acclaimed training staff at TCC Training & Consultancy. Thanks to our sponsors this month, and as a courtesy to those of you interested in this annual celebration of project management achievement, click here to learn more. Well done to Chris – and as ever, many congratulations as always to all of our Ten in Ten winners and participants. OCTOBER SURVEY FORMALLY OPENS TODAY The next grand prize on offer comes from our sponsor for the month of October, PMI Synergy 2012 . Read More »

…Sze-Wai Lai of London and Des Pulleyn of Woking!!! Sze-Wai and Des were selected from a collection of hundreds of participants in the premier edition of the Prize Draw commemorating the latest monthly edition of the 10th Birthday Celebration from Arras People . As was the case last month, hundreds took part in the August contest, with several repeat participants from the first four months of competition. As our grand prize winners, Sze-Wai and Des win individual tickets to APM Project Management Awards ceremony this November in London, both courtesy of the Association for Project Management. Thanks to our sponsors this month, and as a courtesy to those of you interested in this annual celebration of project management achievement, click here to learn more. Well done to both Sze-Wai and Des – and as ever, many congratulations as always to all of our Ten in Ten winners and participants. We’ll be in touch with Sze-Wai and Des to inform them of the latest exciting results. We’ve reached halftime in the Ten in Ten Competition: 60% of the way there now! SEPTEMBER SURVEY FORMALLY OPENS TODAY The next grand prize on offer comes from our sponsor for the Paralympic month of September, TCC Training & Consultancy Read More »