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Jim Young

Jim Young FNZIM is a Project Management Professional (PMP) who holds a MBA in International Management and a Doctoral degree in Business Administration.

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BOOK LAUNCH – “Managing Smaller and Medium-Sized Projects”

Authors launching their books sometimes find themselves at a bookstore or other venue surrounded by empty seats except perhaps for their loyal family members,...

Project Durations and Contingencies

Predicting project completion times is one of the challenges of Project Managers. Project schedule overruns are quite common due to uncertainty in estimating task durations,...

Project Cost Estimating

Estimation is notoriously difficult. Projects by definition are unique ventures. We do not have the luxury of “having done it before” enjoyed by our...