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To attract passive talent you need to redefine ‘passive aggressive’ and turn it into a recruitment strategy. Imagine your ideal candidate. Smart, hard-working, dedicated, capable, innovative, creative … spend a few seconds populating your own list. Have you ever interviewed this ideal candidate, offered them the gig, only to find …

With the success of my first eBook, I am delighted to publish Volume II. The book covers a wealth of topics from Stonseed’s Project Management as a Service and our IT services, to an array Project and Programme Management issues. Volume II of Straight Talk on Project Management is now …

Many problems on projects are the direct result of poorly defined roles and responsibilities. But vagueness over roles can also result in turf wars and hostility when more than one individual believes they have control over an area of project activity.   For organisations using the PRINCE2 methodology, which is …

Implementing changes internally within an organisation takes work. People are the main reason for and behind the change.   Resource management is essential for businesses to meet existing and future needs. It is far more effective to assign resources with the right skills and availability to the right type of …

All size of projects, even the smallest, littlest projects have stakeholders. Most management styles, systems, approaches and methodologies have to involve stakeholder management for this reason. Stakeholder management is so important in fact, that there are key principles involved in the process of managing stakeholders so that project managers have …

Small projects present a whole host of problems and issues for businesses, whether its vulnerability to absenteeism or the challenge of sourcing a small team that have the skillset to see the project through to its end. As with every project, it pays to have a project manager with the …

  Cambridge, United Kingdom: 9th January 2018   Bubble, a leading provider of cloud-based Project Portfolio Management Software, today announced that it has received the ISO/IEC 27001:2013 security certification (ISO 27001), one of the most widely recognized and internationally accepted information security standards. The ISO 27001 designation formally confirms the …

The internet has been brilliant for recruitment. As an employer, you can now Access Talent from wider pools than ever and through social media practically pre-interview prospective colleagues before they even set foot through your door. Despite this, a friend just complained about feeling uninspired by respondents to a recent …

In recent weeks, I’ve observed that there seem to be three ways of communicating ‘news’ in IT Projects. i) To communicate the news, update or information half as big as it is in reality. ii) To communicate the news, update or information twice as big as it is in reality. …

Project and program management have a great influence on the strategic planning of companies. Implementation and success rates determine if and how changes might affect the company. In particular, long-term initiatives implemented through program management ensure good talent management and are crucial for success. Projector-oriented companies need to use the …