IT Project Management

Don’t Myth Out! How Experienced IT Project Managers Drive Business Growth

Insights, Project Management Tips

“Of all our administrative staff, you’re the best paid by far.”

Ant from London is an experienced Project Leader, at his recent annual appraisal he was told this by the Director of People. It was meant kindly, motivational even, but it sums up one of the biggest misconceptions about project management. The idea that PMs are just administrators with fancy job titles.

Ant was fairly chilled out about the backhanded compliment, as PMs we know our value, his CIO took more of a dim view and gave the People Director a piece of his mind – we are with the CIO!

You may have heard similar…

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IT Project Management: AI Is on the rise but it’s the human touch that matters

Project Management Tips

IT projects are the backbone of business growth.

Delivering them successfully, however, is anything but straightforward: demand for specialist project managers has never been higher; skills shortages continue to bite; and automation powered by artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming how project work gets done.

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Benefits Realisation: Is the Procurement Act delivering for SMEs and the Public Sector?

Leadership, Project Management Tips

he Procurement Act 2023 came into law on 24 February 2025, promising:

“a simpler and more flexible, commercial system that better meets our country’s needs”

To “open up public procurement to new entrants such as small businesses and social enterprises so that they can compete for and win more public contracts”

“embed transparency throughout the commercial lifecycle so that the spending of taxpayers’ money can be properly scrutinised.”

In this blog we take the pulse of The Procurement Act and ask if the benefits promised are being delivered.

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Mind Your Own Business: How Commercial Impact Is The New IT Project Super-Metric

Leadership, Project Management Tips

Over three quarters (77%) of project professionals say business acumen improves strategic decision making, yet less than a fifth (18%) are highly proficient in it.

That gap is costing organisations more than they realise. Especially in I.T. projects, where the line between delivery and business value is thinner than ever.

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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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