BCS Commercial Awareness replaces ISEB Organisational Context

Posted by Rex on March 7, 2012 in Business Analysis 0 Comments
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From April 2012 the BCS Foundation Certificate in Commercial Awareness will take the place of  ISEB Organisational Context. The Organisational Context Course has been a popular optional module for those studying for the BCS-ISEB Business Analysis Diploma. However, it has been criticised as being UK centric – and not relevant to those working in organisations [...]

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Darryl Childs joins the Focus on Training Team

Posted by Rex on March 6, 2012 in FOCUS on TRAINING 0 Comments
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Project Management and IT training specialist, Focus, has appointed Darryl Childs as account manager.   Darryl has a sales, training and account management background in the healthcare sector. Client’s like Darryl’s cheerful and enthusiastic determination to deliver high quality outcomes. When not at work, Darryl is usually preoccupied with his 9 month old daughter (or a Fender [...]

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APMP Qualification becomes mandatory for BAA Project Managers

Posted by Rex on March 6, 2012 in APM 0 Comments
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“The percentage of our staff that I see having APMP by the end of this year should be 100% of our project managers” says BAA Heathrow Airport programme director, Julian Foster. He added that APMP is important on a number of other levels including “the fact that it is best of class, but more importantly [...]

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PMI or PRINCE2 or APM – Which Project Management Certification?

Posted by Rex on March 6, 2012 in APM 0 Comments
pmi apm and prince2 certification

Is PMI training worth doing if you are Prince2 qualified? Heidi Dunn set the ball rolling with this 10 word question and sparked a lively debate on the Focus LinkedIn group. You can see a few salient snippets below – but why not get involved yourself by joining us on LinkedIn. “PMP is much more focused [...]

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IT Security – A Good Career Choice?

Posted by Steve on March 5, 2012 in Information Security 0 Comments
IT Security Training Courses

IT underpins most businesses and organisations, and for IT  professionals there are many subject areas offering a wide range of career choices.  IT security is one of them, but is it a good career choice? Organisations need IT Security Professionals  Information Security is becoming more and more critical as the amount of data being processed [...]

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Ethical Hacking – Really?

Posted by Steve on March 2, 2012 in Ethical Hacking 0 Comments
Ethical Hacking training courses

Anyone who has locked up their house before going on holiday will remember that they usually double-check that all the doors and windows are secured before departing. Similarly, if you have a computer programme, a network or important hardware, it is a natural instinct to check if it is OK, secure and works as planned.  [...]

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Implementing ISO 27001 – What’s Involved?

Posted by Steve on February 21, 2012 in Information Security 0 Comments
Implementing ISO 27001 - Focus offers ISO 27001 training courses

ISO/IEC 27001 is an Information Security Management System (ISMS) which  is designed to bring information security under management control. Implementing ISO 27001 involves understanding how an organisation functions in detail, as it’s implementation will involve fundamental changes to the way an organisation functions Every security rule that is implemented will make an impact on the [...]

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Traditional and Agile Project Management – What’s the Difference?

Posted by Steve on February 20, 2012 in Agile & Scrum 0 Comments
Traditional or Agile Project Management - Which do I choose?

Traditional Project Management involves: – deliberate planning and control methods – distinct project life cycle phases – project tasks completed in an orderly sequence Traditional project management methods succeed where the project requirements can be tightly defined upfront and where there is little change during the project. This is often called the “Waterfall” model. For [...]

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IT Governance – What’s Involved?

Posted by Steve on February 17, 2012 in IT 0 Comments
IT Governance Framework

Firstly, it’s important to make the distinction between governance and management. Governance is about establishing chains of responsibility and creating metrics, policies, standards and control mechanisms. Governance talks of decision making. Management talks of implementing the decisions efficiently. Governance decides the direction, management builds the road. IT governance, which began with merely good management of [...]

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TOGAF 9.1 – What’s New?

Posted by Rex on February 8, 2012 in IT 0 Comments
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TOGAF 9.1 was released in December 2011. There are no new features in this version.  It is intended to introduce a number of relatively minor corrections and improvements to TOGAF version 9, launched at the start of 2009. Those who have recently certified (or who are in the process of training and certification) need not [...]

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