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P3O Portfolio, Programme and Project Office The New GuidanceWednesday 18th March 2009 Birmingham Area Venue: Aston LakesideIn the Spring 2009 PPSOSIG (Programme and Project Support Office Specialist Interest Group) conference, delegates were invited to learn more about the P3O guidance; the reality of using the new P3O guidance; the opportunity to understand more about Portfolio Management and its links to P3O; become familiar with the new P3O accreditation and understand more about how P3O will work for them, their PMO and their organisation.

Bob Newman of Insight Consulting (pictured below) has benchmarked data from over 1,000 in-depth stakeholder interviews across 250 organisations worldwide.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is implementing a programme approach to the planning and delivery of its defence capability, aligned to OGCs MSP framework.

Cloud computing is a buzzword used to describe information infrastructure, software and services hosted on the internet rather than on personal computers.

APM Overseas Project of the Year Award winner, the Water Cube in Beijing, successfully combined a record-breaking Olympic swimming pool with a truly inspirational and enduring design for the Chinese people.

The individual behaviour of project players and the behaviour of groups or teams (their engagement) lie at the heart of managing projects, says Martin Price.

About three months before the due date, Dr Graham Oakes noticed that the project portfolio he was monitoring would suddenly experience a large slip followed by a series of smaller slips a pattern that looked a lot like an earthquake.

An ambitious project to build Europe's first surfing reef is taking place on England's south coast after nine years of planning, negotiation, and delays.

In part one (November issue), Dr John McManus examined some of the issues within the time, cost and quality project management paradigm.

Keynote APM Conference speaker, Sir David Normington, gives an insight into project management at the Home Office where, as permanent secretary for the past three years, he has been responsible for overseeing several multi-million pound and highly controversial projects.