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Avoiding “GAME OVER”! Delaying Delivery to Protect and Perfect Your Project Outcomes

Programme Management, Project Management Tips

Completing an IT project and releasing it into service is always an extremely exciting and satisfying moment and delivering it within a pre-determined timeframe and budget certainly ramps up the joy … but also the pressure!

When your confidence in going live is shaken by bugs or issues, and your stakeholders are breathing down your neck, what do you do?

When PM friend Fiona found herself in this exact position recently, she gained a valuable insight, not from an experienced colleague, or a trusted IT Advisory partner. Fiona’s mentor was her teenage son!

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GPT vs KPIs! AIs vs PMs!! OMG!! When Artificial Intelligence meets project reality

Insights, Leadership, Programme Management

AI continues to shape conversations across IT project management, increasingly augmenting and assisting project delivery.

PMs and BAs etc who have successfully integrated AI into their work now tell me it feels less like a tool and more like a colleague!
Interesting!

The other day I read a very funny article which defined the “human personalities” of various AI engines – as if the AI’s were real people.

This got us thinking: could the way these AIs handle information “mirror” how our Business Analysts, Project Managers, PMO analysts, and Change Managers tackle their roles? Also, what could we learn by mapping these AI traits to the roles that drive successful projects at Stoneseed?

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An IT project leader’s guide to rebooting a failing IT project: post-its, PMaaS, possibilities and p-p-p-enguins!

Careers, News, Programme Management, Uncategorized

Your IT Project is heading off course, out of control and heading at speed to become part of those often-quoted failure statistics … what do you do?Panic? Head to the nearest bar?Do nothing and hope for the best? Or … implement a cunning plan that saves the day (Editor’s Note: Then head to the nearest

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Some Gems

December’s reminder that PMAAS is such a gem!

Insights, Programme Management

Feel free to steal the question to brighten your Christmas dinner table as much as it did ours! And by that, I mean that not only did we pull our first Christmas crackers – we also had our first argument of the festive season! One diner piped up that “June also has three birthstones” and found a website to ‘prove’ it, another got quite heated about the fact that it was more nuanced because there were modern and traditional birthstones for each month. A third sarcastically asked, “Who even believes in birthstones? Next, you’ll tell me you believe in signs of the zodiac and horoscopes.”

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Navigating Flu Season: How IT Project Management as a Service (PMaaS) Keeps Your Projects Stay Healthy When Your Team Is Not.

Leadership, PMO, Programme Management

As I write, we are clearly coming into cold and flu season! Television and radio are full of adverts for over-the-counter medicines for coughs, blocked noses and sore throats and my social media feeds are full of home-made remedies – green ginger wine, rum, honey, boiling water, chilli, 2 drops each of rosemary and eucalyptus

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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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From ‘a meh thing’ to amazing! How PMaaS can help build innovation into IT Projects

Insights, Programme Management

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.

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