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 to scuffed knees, how many times did you nearly go over the handlebars because you applied the front brake too harshly? How many tears? How many tantrums? None of these […]
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 them ‘Team X’ was struggling to deliver projects within agreed parameters and the second, ‘Team Y’ was hitting targets but was asking ‘what else can we do to add extra
Is your project team made up of puppets or pioneers? Read More »
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,” the project’s sponsor told me. What I found was a familiar sight, a project that was not failing through lack of governance but instead a lack of simplicity. The project
Five tangles that could be damaging your IT project – and how to de-tangle them Read More »
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% of organisations think that project management is critical to the success of their business. That’s such a large percentage I had to check it … and it’s right – actually I
You’ll read many statistics about why IT Projects fail – now read one solution Read More »
Good time management is something that often sounds easy in theory but in practice can often prove elusive. For managers, the difficulty comes from having to juggle your day to day workload with managing a team of people and all the unpredictability that brings. Good time management isn’t just about becoming more efficient at the
Using Covey’s Matrix to tame your Time Management Woes Read More »
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 – even friends who don’t follow football have been caught up in the romance of a triumphant underdog coming out on top. It is a wonderful story but make no
NINE LESSONS IT PROJECT MANAGERS CAN LEARN FROM THE LEICESTER CITY FAIRYTALE Read More »
As a new project manager your first projects can be challenging without the necessary processes, methods, knowledge, skills, tools and experience. However, there is a training course that could be just right for you; the APM Project Fundamentals Course provides a flexible way to apply tried and tested project management techniques to your projects. It
APM Project Fundamentals: Starting Your Journey in Project Management Read More »
Changepoint, a leading provider of professional services automation (PSA) solutions, today announced a new mobile application for Changepoint PSA that enables professional services consultants to submit timesheets, expense data, and task updates on any device, anywhere, with or without a network connection. Changepoint will demonstrate the app on Apple iOS- and Android-compatible tablets and phones
At best lessons learned are explicit knowledge. Explicit knowledge can be readily articulated, codified, stored, accessed and transmitted to others. The process of transforming the ‘lessons’ recorded by a project team into explicit knowledge requires: The lesson to be recorded by the team. Ideally this is a contemporaneous process designed to capture current experiences and
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The chances are you organisation is already focusing on ‘stakeholder engagement’ but is using another name for the activity. From an organisational perspective stakeholder engagement is a means to achieving outcomes that are increasingly being seen as being commercially desirable or necessary to comply with various rules and regulations. Some of the overarching terms that
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