Keyword data proves project management to be the favourite for managers’ looking to enhance their skills By Sarah-Jane McQueen, General Manager of CoursesOnline. CoursesOnline is a platform through which learners looking to improve their skills can choose online courses from across the UK, to develop their project management and other skills. Project management is a […]
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Is Accountability Strangling IT Project Innovation? Why is it, with VERY public IT projects, that when they fail everyone seems to want to wash their dirty laundry in front of all to see? Accountability, apparently. Public interest. It’s public money. The public has a right to know what went wrong. From Public Health IT to
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Failure Is the new success. Here are five ways that you can embrace failure and enjoy its unexpected benefits. Knowing when to say enough is enough and kill an IT Project must be among the hardest skills to learn. I’m not sure any of us ever totally master it either. When your sponsor has invested
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We live in strange times. Who would have thought last year that 2020 would be the year of Covid-19, the year of lockdown, the year of working from home (at least for many of us)? So, what will the future bring for businesses? Any strategic planning for this year has probably gone out of the
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As a tech leader, you’re responsible for leading a development team. Thus you’re in control of all the technology deliverables that contribute to achieving the overall vision or strategy of your company. However, as you will be handling multiple demands and projects most of the time, you need to know the right project management strategies
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The professional environment for a modern project manager is a diverse, multi-disciplined landscape. This complex fusion of information maintenance, personnel leadership, cost containment, and safety management calls for a wide-ranging set of skills. The need for soft skills like leadership, tact, organization, and personal communication will not change. What has changed and will continue to
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Every project, simple or complex, is vulnerable to delays regardless of how well planned the schedule is. This is a jarring reality in the project management landscape. More often than not, when delays surface, they cripple the workflow process and lead to project failure. Consequently, they leave us agonizing over the causes, and, in most
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Are you familiar with the TV show “It’ll Be Alright In The Night?” It’s a TV bloopers show, presented nowadays by Griff Rhys Jones, where the mistakes of the great and the good of the acting and television world are broadcast for a laugh. This last few weeks alone I’ve come across so many IT
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Originally published on PMToday.co.uk I took a train to London recently. Train journeys are like being given the gift of time. Once settled, I like to work, read the newspaper, take in the latest blogs from CIO.com or chew over the latest insight from the PMI. Then, other times, I like to just close my
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I just witnessed an IT Project team undergo a massive positive transformation … all thanks to a video camera and an innovative CIO. The team was going through one of phases. You ever have these? Nothing was wrong … but nothing felt right. They were delivering IT Projects on time but not feeling proud of
