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Roller coaster delivery: Managing IT projects with theme park energy

Insights, Leadership, Programme Management

IT Project Management can be a bit like a theme park of rollercoaster rides – thrilling at first, but quickly full of twists, sudden drops, unexpected loops, and that one terrifying moment when you realise the track ahead looks … er … unfinished.

One minute you’re cruising through planning, and the next you’re free-falling through shifting priorities, budget changes, or surprise stakeholder input. That’s why you need someone riding beside you—steady, experienced, and holding your hand.

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The benefits of hiring an introverted project manager

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As the saying goes “You should never judge a book by its cover” and when it comes to project management this is certainly true. It is important that the effectiveness of a professional is not judged because they have a more introverted personality where it is believed an extrovert would be able to do a

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5 Reasons Women Are Successful as Project Managers

Leadership

Project management is the discipline of planning, executing, and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed on time, within budget, and to the specified quality standards. It involves coordinating resources, managing stakeholders, and mitigating risks to achieve defined objectives. These are skills that women project managers excel at. In addition to the core principles of

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Choreograph your IT project backstage to maximise your audience’s experience

Insights, News, Programme Management

In IT Project Management we put so much effort into choreographing our deliverables and outcomes, the part of the process that our “audience” sees, but how much thought goes into what happens out of sight, behind the curtain?

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Project Management: How To Improve Your Leadership Skills

Leadership

Every organization understands the importance of having a good project manager to supervise the achievement of organizational goals and objectives. If an organization achieves its aims through the process of project management, it can see marked changes in employee productivity. However, at the end of the day, a project manager has to be a good

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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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4 Words You Should Never Use In Project Management

Insights

Thinking about words in project management contexts that you use every day as a project manager is probably not something that you have given serious consideration to, but perhaps it should be. As with anything in life, the words that you use matter, and the wrong word can hold far more power than you might

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Changing our minds – the evolution of IT project strategic thinking and decision making

Insights, Programme Management

Interesting perspective from a Chief Experience Officer, Sandy, on how her organisation is making decisions – “we’re like a car that’s forgotten it has a steering wheel and more than one gear”.

I love this metaphor. I can see the car missing turn offs and short cuts and the noise and smoke from driving along in first gear!

What she means is that when the project team faces a challenge, or has a strategic decision to make, instead of weighing up what the problem really is and what would be best, it is culturally beholden to the in-house resources it already has at its disposal.

Sandy thinks it may be a hangover from the pandemic.

I suppose we all managed with what resources we could lay our hands on, became insular in our thinking, even adopting a scarcity mindset as we adjusted to the changing reality.

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Project manager mistakes you need to stop making

Insights

There are some common project manager mistakes you might make that are obvious. Unfortunately, though, there are others that you may not realise that you are making. The obvious ones, like promising too much and not being able to deliver it, are an obvious trap that it is all too easy to fall into. It’s

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A Beginner’s Guide To Becoming A Project Manager

Careers

For those starting out on a career as a project manager – or maybe considering a career change into project management – there are a few things to know to get off to the best start. Below is a useful beginner’s guide to becoming a project manager, listing some of the main attributes required and

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