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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...project management software instances for projects that have been delivered, or automated data capture and backup solutions that are no longer required. The individual savings for each of these may be small, but they are incrementally cumulative. Plus, since most cloud applications and technology platforms are billed on a usage basis, there are both financial and carbon...
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Approaches to software development
Science, Maths & Technology

Approaches to software development

...management problems with the project. A technical audit revealed that the CAD system was incomplete and not fully tested. Its ability to deal with heavy loads had not been tested and nor had a backup service been tested. There were also outstanding problems with the accuracy of the information needed to initiate each dispatch (South West Thames Regional Health Authority,...
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Level 3: Advanced 9 hrs
Software development for enterprise systems
Digital & Computing

Software development for enterprise systems

...project management and decision tracking. Importantly, they improve the quality of the development processes by supporting, and to a large extent enforcing, a standard methodology and sound design principles. Despite these potential benefits, there are often obstacles to their adoption. The introduction of a CASE tool within an organisation comes at a high cost: an...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Personal development planning for engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Personal development planning for engineering

...project management. Then I went to join Rolls Royce, and in particular I was working in the stress office, which was involved in the design of gas turbine rotating components. And I was exposed to the challenges of high technology in terms of materials and operational performance of safety-critical components in aero engines – for example, looking at the failure of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Introducing technology and innovation management
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing technology and innovation management

...management, in your opinion? Select one or more: project management resourcing organisational design external relations and networking innovation processes portfolio management technology management human resources leadership and organisational culture innovation strategy marketing knowledge and intellectual property management performance measures ......
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Applying to study for a PhD in psychology
Health, Sports & Psychology

Applying to study for a PhD in psychology

...Project management 1. Go through the list of skills and grade yourself, then read the reveal. Work independently. Keep records of your reading and other work, for your own future reference. Plan your work and maintain a schedule, with enough flexibility to change in response to new circumstances. Be critically reflective about the work you have done, and need to do. Meet...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Managing and managing people
Money & Business

Managing and managing people

...project management skills for engineers building bridges, aircraft and ships. Katz pointed out that training programmes tend to focus on skills in this area. These skills are easier to learn than those in the other two groups. Human skills. Katz defines these as the ability to work effectively as a group member and to build cooperative effort in the team a person leads....
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
An introduction to death, dying and grief
Health, Sports & Psychology

An introduction to death, dying and grief

...Project Management] If you said to me, did I want this project, I can think of other ones I’d rather have than project managing my own death. But the truth is, we all have, we’re all going to die. And I think we forget that in our lives, that every life ends. And to have the chance to organise and do things and make productive use of the time that’s left is a real,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs