Project Management Tips

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How to make risk management pay: The ROI of Business Analysts and PMOs

Programme Management, Project Management Tips

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.

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Avoiding “GAME OVER”! Delaying Delivery to Protect and Perfect Your Project Outcomes

Programme Management, Project Management Tips

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!

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How to Track Progress Without Micromanaging

Project Management Tips

The world of project management is a dynamic one. Therefore, being able to monitor progress effectively is paramount. This ensures that projects remain on track, within budget, and ultimately deliver the required outcome. Frameworks such as those underpinning the APMG Project Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control qualification, and other training courses for PMs, show just

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