Closing a project is an essential skill in any business and PRINCE2 has a specific process for this purpose. For a definitive guide, you will need to do one of our courses which offer real-world-based training, but our pointers below give an overview of what is involved.

Just as behind every successful sports team is a great manager so behind every top project team is an effective project manager. But how do you get the most out of your team? Here are some tips to help.

At a time of deep budget cuts, all spending needs to be justified and conference attendance cost is no exception. So we have come up with some simple tips to help you judge and justify which project management conferences you should attend.

Season of mists and many conferences as it is in this part of the northern hemisphere, we thought we’d pass on some tips that would ensure you get your money’s worth from project management conferences wherever you are in the world.

One of the trickiest jobs in project management is identifying stakeholders. We cannot give you the definitive approach (for that you will have to study PRINCE2, or if you want to be a programme manager, MSP) but we can give you pointers on identifying the different species of stakeholders.

Love them or loath them, stakeholders can make or break a project if you don’t engage with them. So we’ve set out some questions you should ask about every stakeholder to help you do just that. If you’re a project manager who wants to fully understand stakeholder engagement, PRINCE2 and MSP will tell you all you need to know.

Before you say goodbye to the beach and hello to the daily commute, here’s a chance to delve into the dark arts of project management with some, not all (hence the title!), of the best books around and to get yourself a bargain on PRINCE2 books in the process!

E-learning’s been kicking around for a while and many organisations use it in their training programmes, but is it right for you? Answer these questions to see!

If you’re trying to get past the hype surrounding e-learning in order to work out if it’ll deliver the business change you need, try answering these questions to see if it makes sense for your firm.

Here’s the second part of our marathon run everything social media and social enterprise to help you find tools to suit your project and your pocket. We can’t promise, but by the end we think you’ll know your yam from your tweet along with your Ning from your Ping.