PROJECT in a box - December 2009 Newsletter

Dear Colleague

Welcome to the December edition of our newsletter and please accept the warm wishes of all of us here at PROJECT in a box for a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous New Year. A short newsletter this month and we will be looking forward to working with you again in 2010 helping you deliver your projects and programmes ever more effectively.

Malcolm West, Managing Director

In this issue:
	Blog Review
	Christmas and New year support
	VAT changes
	End of term humour

Blog Review

It is still under two months since we launched the PIAB blog - Project Management Explored, but the interest has been amazing and we can see from the stats how popular these are and how some amongst you are starting to share the content more widely Bravo...feel free to share as much as you want, but please provide a link back to us when you republish. The following posts are new since the last newsletter:

Exploiting non project documentation

PRINCE2 languages

Projects for free

Multiple pilots for major IT projects?

Project Success

Happy Birthday MSP

Are you planning for Christmas?

We hope you find these helpful and informative, if you have any feedback or suggestions for topics just let us know and we will be delighted to build them into future topics.

We have also set up a PROJECT in a box Twitter, so if Twitter is your thing look us up: projectinabox

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Christmas and new year support

During the Christmas and new year period the PROJECT in a box support desk will be open as usual on UK office hours, with the exception of an early close on Christmas eve....everyone deserves some time off!

Dec 24th Thursday - 9am-1pm
Dec 25th Friday - closed bank holiday
Dec 26th Saturday - closed
Dec 27th Sunday - closed
Dec 28th Monday - closed bank holiday
Dec 29th Tuesday - 9am-5pm
Dec 30th Wednesday - 9am-5pm
Dec 31st Thursday - 9am-5pm
January 1st Friday - closed bank holiday
January 2nd Saturday - closed
January 3rd Sunday - closed
January 4th Monday return to normal days

As usual you can contact the support desk by email, telephone or skype, full details are available on our support pages.

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VAT changes

On the 1st of January the rate of VAT goes back up to 17.5% from its current level at 15%. This will apply to sales into the EU where you cannot provide us with a VAT number.

So bottom line. If you are an individual thinking of buying personal version, buying before the end of December will be cheaper than in January.

You can access the Personal Version products page or the Community Edition extensions pages using these links.

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End of Term

End of term fun and games so we have collected a few bits of Project management wisdom/humour here for you:

A project is one small step for the project sponsor, one giant leap for the project manager.

Everyone asks for a strong project manager - when they get him they don't want him.

All project managers face problems on Monday mornings - good project managers are working on next Monday's problems.

If there were no problem people there'd be no need for people who solve problems.

The more ridiculous the deadline the more money will be wasted trying to meet it.

The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time the last 10% takes the other 90%

Warning: dates in the calendar are closer than you think

A project gets a year late one day at a time.

Projects don't all fail in the end, they fail at the beginning.

Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal.

People make a plan work, a plan alone seldom makes people work (Confucius).

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A talented & commercially focused individual to lead the development & exploitation of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) within the business.
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Senior Project Consultant
AD-441
A senior consultant with hands on, Demonstrable experience in major sporting events in either Programme management, risk Management or Security (risk) Management.
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You must be willing to travel and relocates to international locations for up to 3 months at a time.
Circa £75K
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Project Manager
AD-443
Part of a £6 million Department for Children, Schools and families funded initiative. Working closely with the Content Director, the Senior Project Manager will provide an interface between the project lead Research Machines and a team of content developers to support the new development in the secondary languages curriculum. Will be Educated to degree level or equivalent, Familiar with the latest methodological developments regarding language learning in general and e-learning in particular.
Circa £36K
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