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The Great Resignation
“The Great Resignation” is a movement that has shifted the balance of power back to employees, who are expressing a


PMO and Quality
Quality is big business in the medical device and pharmaceutical industries. These are two of the most highly regulated of
Aspira Employee Spotlight Series with Rachael Milne, Project Manager
Rachael Milne is the Project Manager heading the setup of Aspira in Portugal. Rachael spends her time on talent acquisition


Full-Stack Developer – “Renaissance Man” or Master of None?
The term “Full-Stack Developer” has a chequered past in the Software industry. Like many terms, when it moved from being


What is a PMO and What Are the Benefits?
Think of a PMO as the glue that binds everything together. In a nutshell, A PMO is a department or


Do you know an Entrepreneurial Project Manager?
One definition of an “Entrepreneur” is someone who exercises initiative by organising a venture to take benefit of an opportunity


Aspira Approved as a PMI® ATP (Authorised Training Partner)
Aspira is delighted to announce that we have been approved by the Project Management Institute as a PMI® ATP (Authorised


30 Years in Resourcing, and how everything has changed, or has it?
Having always worked in the services industry, it was in exactly the same frame of mind that I entered the


Exploring the challenges of the Software Testing Process
In a former life, I worked in software development, specifically on a suite of telecoms products in the 3G area


Does Dynamics 365 meet the CRM Trends of 2022?
Microsoft announced their Wave 2 release for 2021 wherein exciting new features will be gradually released from October 2021 to


Server Sent Events – Increasing Performance Levels
During Lockdown, a group of friends and I started getting together weekly, to play a board game using an online


The Importance of the Discovery Phase In a Project
One of the most positive experiences I had recently with a client involved telling them to buy a lower-cost solution


Thought Leadership – Which type of thinking do you engage with?
In kicking off with my first blog of the year, I want to talk about Thought Leadership. It’s a term


Successfully run Agile Projects with an MTU Diploma in Project Management
After receiving an email from Munster Technological University (MTU) to promote their new Project Management Diploma course for 2022, it


Business Plus Magazine – Pat Lucey, CEO, Aspira
Pat Lucey is CEO at Aspira, a consulting and technology business that has 160 employees and plans to add 40


5 Most In-Demand Tech Roles in 2022
The technology resourcing market has been through a huge amount of upheaval over the last two years thanks largely to


What is Microsoft Dynamics 365?
Once an organisation reaches a certain size, it must deploy systems to help automate and simplify operational management. Increasingly, businesses


Celebrating Milestones
In my day job with Aspira, we are all about milestones – key deadlines in a project which we aim


6 key benefits of using Power BI
Data is everywhere. The world contains an extraordinary amount of data, an amount that grows larger and larger each day.


Resource Management – Know the Capabilities and Benefits
In today’s environment, accelerated more so with the impact of COVID-19, organisations are under increasing pressure to deliver innovative, technologically


Different approaches to organise the software development process
As anyone who has ever tackled a software development project can tell you, building digital solutions implies going through a


Business Applications – Utilising the Ecosystem
Aspira’s Business Applications specialise in utilising tools existing within an organisation to solve problems in as efficient a manner as


Sunday Business Post Interview – Pat Lucey, CEO, Aspira
‘People who are curious about a job will learn a whole lot more than those who just want to get


Is Black Friday for B2B too?
Today is the day known as Black Friday. The day after the annual holiday that is ‘Thanksgiving’ and for the


How to Support Change in Your Organisation
No organisation can afford to stand still. There are always new challenges to meet, and better ways of doing things.


85% of organisations will be “cloud-first” by 2025, says Gartner
Digital transformation pressure, combined with pandemic-driven changes, will move us into a world where anything that isn’t cloud is considered