Every organisation says it wants to deliver faster, yet countless projects quietly stall in the planning stage. Teams workshop detailed roadmaps, perfect the strategy, and build layers of governance, only to find that the project still hasn’t actually started. Sound familiar?
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 »
From April 2026, the Employment Rights Act will increase both the cost and procedural complexity of employing people directly, while also extending important new protections to employees. At the same time, new tax rules introduce joint and several liability for unpaid contractor and umbrella PAYE.
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?
How PMaaS Prevents IT Projects Ageing Badly Read More »
It’s often said that projects fail because of bad technology choices, flawed strategies, creeping scope or shifting business priorities. Often though, the real culprit is much simpler — and scarier.
It’s a lack of people.
Or, more specifically, a lack of the right people at the right time.
Skeleton Staff: When IT Project Resource Planning Goes Bone-Dry Read More »
BREAKING NEWS | We’ve just been told we’re not allowed to use the C-word in the office!!!!
Yes! Mentioning Christmas has been banned!! (Until the end of the month at least!!)
Apparently, it’s bad luck!
Maybe there is something in that.
Famous Last Words! The Jinxed Phrases Guaranteed To Sink An IT Project! Read More »
Risk management in IT projects has often been considered a defensive discipline, intended to catch issues before they “snowball” into full blown disaster!
Given the current economic climate, where businesses are measuring the ROI on everything, at Stoneseed we’ve applied a growth mindset to risk management and identified that, with proactive risk management, you can unlock real, measurable financial value.
How to make risk management pay: The ROI of Business Analysts and PMOs Read More »
Completing an IT project and releasing it into service is always an extremely exciting and satisfying moment and delivering it within a pre-determined timeframe and budget certainly ramps up the joy … but also the pressure!
When your confidence in going live is shaken by bugs or issues, and your stakeholders are breathing down your neck, what do you do?
When PM friend Fiona found herself in this exact position recently, she gained a valuable insight, not from an experienced colleague, or a trusted IT Advisory partner. Fiona’s mentor was her teenage son!
Avoiding “GAME OVER”! Delaying Delivery to Protect and Perfect Your Project Outcomes Read More »
Straight Talk on Project Management is Stoneseed’s eBook, your go-to resource for practical, no-nonsense project and programme management anecdotes and advice!
It’s perfect summer holiday reading!!
At Stoneseed, we write at least 48 blogs a year covering everything from agile transformations to stakeholder engagement, always with our trademark passion and a light-hearted touch that gives you a fresh perspective on project management. The hope is that they’re never too technical, sales-pitchy or high-brow – we’ll save that for when we work together on your project!
8 is the magic number Read More »
AI continues to shape conversations across IT project management, increasingly augmenting and assisting project delivery.
PMs and BAs etc who have successfully integrated AI into their work now tell me it feels less like a tool and more like a colleague!
Interesting!
The other day I read a very funny article which defined the “human personalities” of various AI engines – as if the AI’s were real people.
This got us thinking: could the way these AIs handle information “mirror” how our Business Analysts, Project Managers, PMO analysts, and Change Managers tackle their roles? Also, what could we learn by mapping these AI traits to the roles that drive successful projects at Stoneseed?
GPT vs KPIs! AIs vs PMs!! OMG!! When Artificial Intelligence meets project reality Read More »
