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Winter Warning Signs: Don’t Ignore the Dashboard Lights on Your IT Project blog

Winter Warning Signs: Don’t Ignore the Dashboard Lights on Your IT Project

PMO, Project Management Tips

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 […]

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The IT Project Talent Crisis: Why Traditional Contractors Aren’t the Answer Right Now

The IT Project Talent Crisis: Why Traditional Contractors Aren’t the Answer Right Now

Project Management Tips

The numbers are stark. By 2035, the world will need 30 million additional project professionals to meet global demand. Yet while organisations scramble to fill gaps, most are still relying on outdated resourcing models that simply don’t work in 2025.

The Talent Shortage Isn’t Getting Better—It’s Evolving

Remember when the biggest problem was just finding enough candidates? That was the tip of the iceberg.

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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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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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Christmas crackers

The best IT project themed Christmas cracker jokes and festive earworms

Insights, Leadership, Programme Management

In the New Year, we’re back on a more serious trajectory with more Straight Talking on IT Project management with the top IT Project Management trends for 2025, and a January blog that will turn you from worrier to warrior!

Right now, though, tis the season for letting your hair down and we’re in full festive mode! Welcome to our party!
There are some brilliant IT project cracker jokes at the end (That’s subjective – Ed) and … as well as laughter … there’s music too!

Did you know that many traditional Christmas songs are IT Project Management anthems? It’s true!!
So … put on your Christmas cracker crown and kick back with some festive favourites.

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Dog sitting next to a trophy.

Unleashing success! What IT Project Management can learn from Crufts

Insights, PMO, Programme Management

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.

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How Knowing Your PM’s Favourite Rom-Com and BA’s Dog’s Name Could Help Optimise IT Project Success!

News

Isn’t it beautiful when an IT Project team execute and implement with total cohesion from top to bottom? When colleagues become team-mates, and when leaders understand who they are leading, I think a team becomes almost unbeatable. LESSONS FROM A LEGEND The passing of the legendary footballer Sir Bobby Charlton, which is fairly fresh news

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What is the difference between Project, Programme and Portfolio Risk Management

Leadership

With the APM re-writing the Body of Knowledge being extended to cover project, programme and portfolio management can we expect different approaches to risk management each or will the same process apply to each level in the same way. What is the project risk management process? The project risk management process is well known. With initiate the

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