On October 20th and 21st the Centre for Project Management and Kemmy Business School hosted a conference entitled Delivering Social Good: Managing Projects in the Non-Profit Sector. The conference was a stimulating and informative mix of practitioner and academic perspectives. Topics covered on the first day included strategy, stakeholder engagement …

Online degree courses are becoming increasingly popular because of the convenience they offer students as well as the availability of programmes. With e-learning courses such as our distance learning Project Management course, assignments are submitted online and students do not have to a classroom for the duration of their course. …

Many people wonder if the Internet is powerful enough to reach the peaks of education attained by philosophers such as Nietzsche and Arthur Schopenhauer. It has benefits in many walks of life today, but the potential to offer new openings for education is certainly one of the key opportunities offered. …

An innovative online master’s programme in project and programme management at the University of Limerick had its first set of graduates this week. The programme, which was launched in September 2011 by the Centre for Project Management, is the first fully online MSc in project management course to be offered …

Ireland Chapter PMI has recently announced that it has hit the 1000th member mark –welcomed in the chapter by current President Colum Horgan. A little known fact is that this chapter was originally set up as the Lambay Chapter back in the late 1990s, by a small group of young …

The Centre for Project Management are delighted to welcome back Dr Alejandro Armellini (Northampton University) to run a one day teaching and learning seminar that focuses on moderating online groups. This highly interactive, face to face workshop aims to provide academics, teaching assistants and associate tutors with practical skills to design the …

The MSc in Project Management fulltime degree programme at the Kemmy Business School, University of Limerick was accredited by the Project Management Institute Global Accreditation Center for Project Management Education Programs (GAC) effective from 01 May 2013 through to the 31 January 2017. Degree programmes that achieve GAC accreditation must …

The CPM and IT Alliance acted as advisors to the ESB  in the development of a project delivery model (PDM), and training of their staff in the use of the model. Projects are now being rolled out using this approach – Sean Hegarty (Director, Wind Energy Projects)  made a presentation …

John Kelly ( Centre for Project Management) and Paul Conheady (CS Solutions) recently made a presentation to the Thomond Region Engineers Ireland on the topic “Project Management for Engineers” Engineers make a transition from technical specialist to project manager often without realising the full implications of how their role has …