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Need a good read for the holidays? We are delighted to share with you an exclusive preview link to download our latest eBook, Straight Talk on Project Management Volume VI. Every year we put together the year’s worth of Stoneseed’s blogs into a book, to give our readers something to read over the holidays. 

Stoneseed’s blogs are based on many years of Project Management experience as well as ideas from the team. Light-hearted, insightful and funny, our blogs cover all things Project Management, Leadership, Best Practice, PMO, Business Analysis and of course Project Management as a Service.  

Recent feedback from a loyal reader …“Always topical, straightforward and don’t try to bamboozle readers with buzz words and clever tricks and importantly they are the right length and frequency. I haven’t really seen anyone else in the project / BA space do this as effectively as Stoneseed do.

We hope you enjoy these books! We work hard on the content and appreciate your feedback.

If you would like to hear more about how we deliver our services and much of the inspiration for our content, make sure to have a look at our Project Management as a Service page or subscribe to our blogs.

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It IS tempting to make a grand, headline grabbing move to justify your organisation’s faith in you, investing in a new portfolio software application or churning your talent, for instance. When new to a role (in many business environments, not just IT Project Management), new managers tend to lean into making sweeping changes, it’s human nature. Often though, hindsight shows that making small tweaks could have been more productive. Rather than shake things up, it can be quicker, and less stressful to shape things up! If you’re new to a role, instead of slashing or splashing budget and drastically altering project team structure, how about looking at the small step changes you can make that can quickly unlock ROI. Less broom, more polish!

IT Project Management Capability Assessment and other project spring cleaning tips

I love this out of office reply from Collette, an IT Project leader who takes herself out of the project portfolio the first Friday and Monday of every March just to have a proper delve into how they do things, assess how aligned their resources and ambitions are, and imagine how they could operate better. A Spring Clean – what a great idea. IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT We measure how successful our projects are all year round, in terms of Return On Investment (ROI), budgets, delivery times met, etc but an IT Project Management Capability Assessment checks in on how effective the delivery frameworks and processes that underpin project success are.

Unleashing success! What IT Project Management can learn from Crufts

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.