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How Finishing Projects Early Can Also Improve Quality

Posted on Friday, 28th March 2014 17:35
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

In an ideal world, we’d all finish up on projects well ahead of schedule, doing away with any chance of procrastination and eradicating those annoying little speed bumps that come up along the way. But this isn’t an ideal world, as we all know, and the reality is that, in the IT sector as well as almost every other industry, some 75% of projects fail because of missed deadlines. When dealing with clients and expectant managers, deadlines are just one of those necessary evils of being a project m...

How Can You Stop Your Project From Falling Behind Schedule?

Posted on Tuesday, 18th March 2014 13:42
Submitted by Kerry Sheahan

Schedules are critical – they’re the glue that holds everything together and keeps things running smoothly, but they’re also the part of a project manager’s organisational structure that always seems to go out of the window first when things aren’t going according to plan. But, as most of us know, this can just exacerbate the problem and make things far more difficult in the long run, and there a several ways to avoid falling behind schedule when those little things start to build up against you...

ILX Rides Cloud with New Training Courses

Posted on Monday, 17th March 2014 17:07
Submitted by Kerry Sheahan

With additional digital knowhow and skills in IT increasingly in demand for project managers and professionals in a range of other industries, it has become more important than ever for workers to engage in targeted training. At ILX, new courses in Cloud computing offer just that, with the expansion of courses on offer fitting in with the increasing demand within the industry for trained project managers with a wide skill set and knowledge of emerging technologies and trends. ILX is a leading...

Why Project Managers Will Have Their Heads in the Cloud This Year

Posted on Thursday, 13th March 2014 16:01
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

Cloud Storage is about as ambiguous as its namesake and whilst it sounds pretty fantastical, Cloud Storage provides a very real, very practical service that has burst forth into life from its long dormant status. Wait, I hear you cry, what do you mean dormant? Cloud Storage is new isn’t it? Well, whilst Cloud Storage has exploded to the forefront of technology in recent years, Cloud Storage (originally coined as Cloud Computing) is actually over 50 years old. It’s been a long time coming,...

10 Reasons to Choose PRINCE2®

Posted on Tuesday, 11th March 2014 09:06
Submitted by ILX Marketing Team

There are many project management methods that can be implemented within an organisation, but PRINCE2® is one of the most respected, popular, and successful. Used extensively by the UK Government and around the world, PRINCE2 is a process-based method that helps manage projects effectively. But why should you implement it in your organisation? Tried and Tested: The PRINCE2 methodology has been used for over thirty years in projects around the world. Originally based on the project managemen...

What Can Troubles with the 2014 World Cup Teach Project Managers?

Posted on Friday, 7th March 2014 17:39
Submitted by Hayley Rissmann

Since winning the rights to host the 2014 World Cup back in 2007, Brazil have been attempting to prove their effectiveness at eventually pulling off the sporting extravaganza, showing off the country in all its glory and getting everything up and running without a hitch. What has occurred, however, hasn’t exactly been the seamless feat of large-scale project management that everyone was hoping for and, with many aspects of preparations falling behind schedule and budgets being eaten up by failur...