Have you ever toiled with a cursed IT Project? Imagine your server not arriving because there is a man standing on a gantry on the M1, shutting it for 28 hours. Imagine your kit arrives with American plugs. Imagine your lead architect getting stuck in Iceland because of a volcano erupting. Sometimes I wonder how […]
When motivating IT Project Management team members, praise, gratitude and recognition for ‘a job well done’ can be as powerful as a raise, a bonus or a promotion. If not more so. Think about it yourself. Your monthly salary is what you’ve earned in return for your services – that’s what’s owed to you! Nice
Possibly, like me, you have been hooked on an outstanding summer of sport. Regular readers of my blogs will know that I take inspiration from all manner of experiences and walks of life and I bring them back to use in my IT Project Management efforts. Inevitably, I have been immensely motivated by the athletes
Six lessons that IT Project Managers can learn from the world’s best athletes Read More »
I bet you can ride a bicycle now, am I right? How many times did you fall off whilst learning? How many plasters got applied to scuffed knees, how many times did you nearly go over the handlebars because you applied the front brake too harshly? How many tears? How many tantrums? None of these
I recently had the pleasure of working with two IT Project Teams who are paradoxically both very similar and very different. The first, I’ll call them ‘Team X’ was struggling to deliver projects within agreed parameters and the second, ‘Team Y’ was hitting targets but was asking ‘what else can we do to add extra
Is your project team made up of puppets or pioneers? Read More »
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,” the project’s sponsor told me. What I found was a familiar sight, a project that was not failing through lack of governance but instead a lack of simplicity. The project
Five tangles that could be damaging your IT project – and how to de-tangle them Read More »
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% of organisations think that project management is critical to the success of their business. That’s such a large percentage I had to check it … and it’s right – actually I
You’ll read many statistics about why IT Projects fail – now read one solution Read More »
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 – even friends who don’t follow football have been caught up in the romance of a triumphant underdog coming out on top. It is a wonderful story but make no
NINE LESSONS IT PROJECT MANAGERS CAN LEARN FROM THE LEICESTER CITY FAIRYTALE Read More »
Changepoint, a leading provider of professional services automation (PSA) solutions, today announced a new mobile application for Changepoint PSA that enables professional services consultants to submit timesheets, expense data, and task updates on any device, anywhere, with or without a network connection. Changepoint will demonstrate the app on Apple iOS- and Android-compatible tablets and phones
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 in the PMBOK® Guide and focused on managing changes to the projects deliverables to meet the requirements of stakeholders. The process is controlled by the project manager, although authority to
Everyone is talking about change Read More »
