Friday, May 3, 2024

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How to fail well...

Failure Is the new success. Here are five ways that you can embrace...

5 Skills Needed To...

Why do projects fail? It's a question that invites a lot of interest and...

Embrace the change: Getting...

New IT systems for a growing business can be an exciting prospect and...

Does a Project Manager...

What makes a successful project manager is a combination of their academic abilities,...
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How many hours overtime do...

Unpaid overtime increased sharply in 2023, according...

From ‘a meh thing’ to...

Experience and anecdotal evidence suggest that Bex isn’t alone in seeking a little bit more. In many organisations now, IT project teams feel that the necessary fixed scope, set budgets, tight deadlines, limited resources and defined roles and responsibilities, leave little or no room for experimentation and innovation. The thing is, if you’re getting the results, do you need the added sizzle of innovating? I think that you do.

How many hours overtime do you work?

Unpaid overtime increased sharply in 2023, according to a study commissioned by Rebel's Guide to Project Management. As the momentum from the Great Resignation starts to wane, employees are finding that their bargaining power isn't what it used to be. About a year ago, job opportunities and rising wages were abundant, but now, those trends are reversing, with fewer openings and slower wage growth.  A recent comprehensive study of US working trends by Rebel’s Guide to Project Management unveils that the amount of unpaid overtime labor that workers are contributing saw a large uptick in 2023. They surveyed...

Five tangles that...

I was just asked to cast ‘an experienced eye’ over an IT project that had gone off the rails. "I think it needs more governance,"...

You’ll read many...

I came across a statistic that I'd jotted down in an old diary. If I'm reading my scribbled note correctly it says that 97%...

NINE LESSONS IT...

  Probably like you, over the past week I have been rather swept away by the wonderful fairytale that is Leicester City's league title win...

Changepoint Launches Mobile...

Changepoint, a leading provider of professional services automation (PSA) solutions, today announced a new mobile application for Changepoint PSA that enables professional services consultants...

Everyone is talking...

In my post Creating Value from Change I looked at the difference between project change control and organisational change management: Project change control is described...

2015 Professional Service...

By Alan Crean, Subject Matter Expert in Professional Services Automation and Project Portfolio Management, Changepoint Leading lights from the world of PSA gathered at Lord’s...

Balancing The IT...

"To achieve success in all the projects that my Project Management Office is handling I need either an extra twenty staff or an extra...

Level 5 Leadership

A Level 5 Leader (L5L) is an individual who blends extreme personal humility with intense professional will. The characteristics and success of these leaders...

How to use...

Many projects and programmes use RAG status reporting but what are the advantages and disadvantages of using Red, Amber, Green reporting. Can we trust...
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