I received an email from a good friend recently and she was desperate for any ideas of how she could run her business properly. It is quite a large business within the retail industry and due to the economic downturn she unfortunately had to lose a few valuable members of staff. One of these people used to control the project management side of the business and to be honest, my friend should have considered this before she came to the decision of who she would have to make redundant, but the fact of the matter was that she hadn’t, and as far as project management went, she just didn’t know where to start.