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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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Unleashing success! What IT Project...

If you’ve ever trained a puppy, you’ll know the value of a “treat” to reward good behaviour, like sitting or staying on command. I think most dogs know the word “biscuit” before they learn their own name, mind you, I know some PMs who are as partial to a bourbon or chocolate malted milk, she writes dunking a digestive! At Crufts I saw a lot of treats passed from owner to dog with a “good boy” or “good girl”. Rewards are vital to the process.

From ‘a meh thing’ to...

Experience and anecdotal evidence suggest that Bex isn’t alone in seeking a little bit more. In many organisations now, IT project teams feel that the necessary fixed scope, set budgets, tight deadlines, limited resources and defined roles and responsibilities, leave little or no room for experimentation and innovation. The thing is, if you’re getting the results, do you need the added sizzle of innovating? I think that you do.

Unleashing success! What IT Project Management can learn from Crufts

If you’ve ever trained a puppy, you’ll know the value of a “treat” to reward good behaviour, like sitting or staying on command. I think most dogs know the word “biscuit” before they learn their own name, mind you, I know some PMs who are as partial to a bourbon or chocolate malted milk, she writes dunking a digestive! At Crufts I saw a lot of treats passed from owner to dog with a “good boy” or “good girl”. Rewards are vital to the process.

A promotion is...

When motivating IT Project Management team members, praise, gratitude and recognition for 'a job well done' can be as powerful as a raise, a...

Six lessons that...

Possibly, like me, you have been hooked on an outstanding summer of sport. Regular readers of my blogs will know that I take inspiration from...

Never, ever fear...

I bet you can ride a bicycle now, am I right? How many times did you fall off whilst learning? How many plasters got applied...

Is your project...

I recently had the pleasure of working with two IT Project Teams who are paradoxically both very similar and very different. The first, I'll call...

Five tangles that...

I was just asked to cast ‘an experienced eye’ over an IT project that had gone off the rails. "I think it needs more governance,"...

You’ll read many...

I came across a statistic that I'd jotted down in an old diary. If I'm reading my scribbled note correctly it says that 97%...

NINE LESSONS IT...

  Probably like you, over the past week I have been rather swept away by the wonderful fairytale that is Leicester City's league title win...

Balancing The IT...

"To achieve success in all the projects that my Project Management Office is handling I need either an extra twenty staff or an extra...
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