IT Project Management

7 Reasons to not resource IT projects using PMaaS

Project Management Tips

(WARNING: TONGUE-IN-CHEEK BLOG AHEAD)

There’s a dangerous new trend creeping into IT project and change portfolios: organisations quietly swapping contractors and permanent headcount for Project Management as a Service (PMaaS).

Terrible idea. PMaaS is suspiciously good at saving money, reducing stress and getting projects delivered on time and within budget, and frankly, where’s the fun in that?

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MoSCoW Prioritisation: Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, Won’t Have – Getting It Right From The Start

Careers, Project Management Tips

I was in a project review meeting last Thursday (actually it was more like a project intervention) and witnessed something I’ve seen too many times before. The Project Manager was desperately trying to explain to a roomful of increasingly frustrated stakeholders why half the transformation requirements wouldn’t make it into the initial go-live. The problem? No one had properly prioritised anything at the start. Every business process change had been labelled “critical.” Every system integration was “essential.” Every data migration activity was “urgent.”

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Don’t Myth Out! How Experienced IT Project Managers Drive Business Growth

Insights, Project Management Tips

“Of all our administrative staff, you’re the best paid by far.”

Ant from London is an experienced Project Leader, at his recent annual appraisal he was told this by the Director of People. It was meant kindly, motivational even, but it sums up one of the biggest misconceptions about project management. The idea that PMs are just administrators with fancy job titles.

Ant was fairly chilled out about the backhanded compliment, as PMs we know our value, his CIO took more of a dim view and gave the People Director a piece of his mind – we are with the CIO!

You may have heard similar…

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IT Project Management: AI Is on the rise but it’s the human touch that matters

Project Management Tips

IT projects are the backbone of business growth.

Delivering them successfully, however, is anything but straightforward: demand for specialist project managers has never been higher; skills shortages continue to bite; and automation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how project work gets done.

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Benefits Realisation: Is the Procurement Act delivering for SMEs and the Public Sector?

Leadership, Project Management Tips

he Procurement Act 2023 came into law on 24 February 2025, promising:

“a simpler and more flexible, commercial system that better meets our country’s needs”

To “open up public procurement to new entrants such as small businesses and social enterprises so that they can compete for and win more public contracts”

“embed transparency throughout the commercial lifecycle so that the spending of taxpayers’ money can be properly scrutinised.”

In this blog we take the pulse of The Procurement Act and ask if the benefits promised are being delivered.

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