Explore the strategic value of thinning and how this simple gardening principle translates into smarter project management.
A Project Management Lesson From The Garden: The Strategic Value of Thinning Read More »
Explore how a modern PMO approach can drive better project visibility, stronger governance, and more flexible delivery in today’s fast-moving IT environment.
Beyond Traditional PMO: Combining Embedded Delivery And Advisory Read More »
How BHF’s digital transformation illustrates the future of tech in charities – and shows how well-managed projects can turn AI and system change into meaningful impact.
Charity Begins At The Project Management Office: How PMaaS Turns Ambition into Impact Read More »
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
Winter Warning Signs: Don’t Ignore the Dashboard Lights on Your IT Project Read More »
As I write, we are clearly coming into cold and flu season! Television and radio are full of adverts for over-the-counter medicines for coughs, blocked noses and sore throats and my social media feeds are full of home-made remedies – green ginger wine, rum, honey, boiling water, chilli, 2 drops each of rosemary and eucalyptus
When a colleague heard that I was heading to the RHS Tatton Garden Show in July, she said that even I couldn’t find project management teachings in the topsoil. Like most gardeners, I do love a challenge, so the gloves are, well, ON! Years of experience, and countless IT Projects under my belt, and a passion for plants and flowers! How hard can this be?
Sow, here we grow!
Eleven IT project lessons to be learned at … Tatton Garden Show Read More »
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.
Unleashing success! What IT Project Management can learn from Crufts Read More »
In a recent blog, TOP 3 WAYS TO RETAIN IT PROJECT TALENT AND HOW TO REMAIN EFFECTIVE WHEN YOU CAN’T I shared a Director People’s story of how a candidate had flipped this perennial interview question and asked, “Where does the company see me?”
There must be something in the air! This week, another HR Director called to canvass my thoughts – An applicant had trumped this by asking … WHERE DO YOU SEE THE IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY IN FIVE YEARS?
Great question! BIG QUESTION!
Like us all, the candidate was mindful about the impact of AI, but there’s an exciting prediction from the “Future of Project Management” (a collaborative “living” thought leadership initiative) about where Project Management might fit within organisations by the end of the decade – read on to find out more!
It’s 2029 and IT project management is the planet’s most in-demand skill Read More »
In the midst of recession and poor economic outlook, companies always endeavour to control costs, whilst revenues remain flat. Unsurprisingly, support departments are one of the first casualties of the CFO’s cost rationalization drive. During this mayhem, PMOs struggle to evade the cost cutting knife and are forced to cut back resources and scale down
PMOs as profit centres Read More »
A Project Office is not set up merely to do all the paperwork and administrative tasks for a project. If that was the case you could simply employ an administrator but, in fact, the most successful Project Offices employ members who have project experience themselves and have often been involved in establishing an organisation’s project
The Project Office and What It Is Not Read More »
