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How to fail well...

Failure Is the new success. Here are five ways that you can embrace...

5 Skills Needed To...

Why do projects fail? It's a question that invites a lot of interest and...

Embrace the change: Getting...

New IT systems for a growing business can be an exciting prospect and...

Does a Project Manager...

What makes a successful project manager is a combination of their academic abilities,...
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How to use RAG Status...

Many projects and programmes use RAG status...

Using Covey’s Matrix to tame...

Good time management is something that often...

New Broom, Sweeps Lean! Four ROI, Efficiency and Productivity Hacks for The New IT Project Decision Maker

It IS tempting to make a grand, headline grabbing move to justify your organisation’s faith in you, investing in a new portfolio software application or churning your talent, for instance. When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Often though, hindsight shows that making small tweaks could have been more productive. Rather than shake things up, it can be quicker, and less stressful to shape things up! If you’re new to a role, instead of slashing or splashing budget and drastically altering project team structure, how about looking at the small step changes you can make that can quickly unlock ROI. Less broom, more polish!

IT Project Collaboration....

"Be open to collaboration. Other people and other people’s ideas are often better than your own," so said comedian and actress Amy Poehler. She's right. I...

IT Project Management:...

"Have you ever wondered why over half of IT Projects fail?" said the voice on the other end of the phone. The cold caller hadn't...

Passive aggressive. Your...

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,...

How mergers and...

In 2016, there were 227 successful inward M&A transactions (overseas firm buys UK one) worth £187.4 billion - the highest annual number since 2011...

5 Tips for...

A fresh perspective, different experiences and a whole new set of skills to learn from. When a new Project Manager joins there is a...

Horses for courses...

I just spent some time with an exasperated CIO. Frustrated by IT Projects that were failing time after time - completing late and over...

Remote control: how...

I remember reading a report called "The Challenges of Remotely Managing A Project". It must be more than ten years ago now and it's...

Tell IT Project...

Three IT Projects have recently been almost scuppered by the same thing. A crippling, debilitating disease that lies dormant for months before inevitably and...

The Perfect IT...

I'd only just arrived on a client visit this week and already this was my kind of conversation. "But Scoro has a real-time dashboard for...

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