{"id":26,"date":"2012-06-12T17:39:50","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectedworks.info\/newsblog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2012-06-12T17:50:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T16:50:13","slug":"project-management-thinking-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.collectedworks.info\/newsblog\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"Project management <br>&#8211; thinking systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectedworks.info\/newsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/boxb-wpic.jpg\" alt=\"boxB-Wpic\" width=\"165\" height=\"159\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"20\" vspace=\"5\" \/>Project in a Box have recently revised and updated their <a title=\"See more of the Community Edition of Project in a Box here...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectinabox.org.uk\/community.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Community Edition<\/a> of the software that lets you get into Prince 2 mode for managing your projects.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Free to download and use for your single project manager activity, or with a team, PIAB is an ideal way to get even the most basic, simple project properly organised and presented to colleagues or boards of management in an orderly, structured and clear way.<\/p>\n<p>We like it as a product, not only for its lack of cost, but because it is now <em>.net portable<\/em> &#8211; you can copy it to your usb stick and go anywhere, but also because the software now has PIAB <em>Planner<\/em> software feely available with it too.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to manage your risk register, look after and track issues or to export outputs for others to work on, we think <em>Planner<\/em> is an invaluable additional tool to your &#8216;structured thinking&#8217; armoury.<\/p>\n<p>Ckeck out the <em><a title=\"Free download and deployment of this great resource...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectinabox.org.uk\/community.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Community Edition of Project in a Box here<\/a><\/em>, you&#8217;ll be on your way to Prince 2 Practitioner status in no time.<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"You can find the Collected Works home page here...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.collectedworks.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Collected Works<\/a> &#8211; offering information about CPD and free resources for socially supportive projects.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Project in a Box have recently revised and updated their Community Edition of the software that lets you get into Prince 2 mode for managing your projects. Free to download and use for your single project manager activity, or with a team, PIAB is an ideal way to get even the most basic, simple project &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectedworks.info\/newsblog\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Project management <br \/>&#8211; thinking systems&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,3,27],"tags":[22,24,25,23,26],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2W0Eu-q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":65,"url":"http:\/\/www.collectedworks.info\/newsblog\/?p=65","url_meta":{"origin":26,"position":0},"title":"Project in a Box &#8211; new edition","date":"December 18, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"We have long been admirers of the Community Edition of Project in a Box. 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