David Cotgreave
Written Articles
Discover how IT talent shortages amplify every project risk — from scope creep to cybersecurity — and how PMaaS helps break the cycle.
Discover the hidden cost of failed IT hires. Learn why traditional recruitment underestimates real project delays – and how Stoneseed’s flexible model fixes it.
Don’t ignore your IT project warning signs. Stoneseed’s 100-day PMO Plan transforms reactive firefighting into winter-ready governance, quality control and monitoring. Picture this. It’s a crisp January morning, frost covering your windscreen, and you’re about to set off on a critical journey. You turn the ignition and immediately notice the engine warning light glowing ominously […]
The IT project management talent gap is growing—but what if the real issue isn’t a shortage, but a lack of imagination?
Discover why stakeholders keep changing their minds mid-project—and how Stoneseed’s Business Analysis as a Service turns chaos into project clarity.
Most organisations are excellent at delivering projects. Ensuring those projects are still relevant five years later is often a different matter.
Budget season is looming, and leadership teams are asking the same question in different ways: how do we get more for less, without storing up problems for the future?
The tale of an unlikely hero, whose glowing red nose guides Santa’s sleigh through the gloomiest fog, has warmed hearts for generations.
(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?
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.”
“I’m not a carrier pigeon!!!”
These are words that you don’t expect to hear from a Project Manager.
We laugh about it now, but when exasperated PM Marcus blurted this out after leaving a meeting, it was a cry for help.