Category: General Discussion
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LinkedIn For Project Managers – How To Use It Effectively
LinkedIn is by far the best social media platform for showcasing your professional project management skills and qualifications. But are you taking full advantage of what it offers you and your career path? LinkedIn, like most social media platforms, is busy. Standing out can be hard to do but it is certainly worth spending time…
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7 Ways To Predict A Good IT Project Hire. But First, Ignore Education
Predicting job performance is vital, after all, that’s the whole point of recruitment. You want to hire someone who will stick around! So, you read what a candidate has written in their CV and you try to make an objective assessment, creating an “identikit” picture in your head based on what they’ve written. That can…
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Honing your time management skills
Even the best project manager can improve their time management skills, and this article is packed full of tips to up your time management game. You might think that having great time management was one of those basic project management skills that any half-competent project manager would have to have acquired in order to stay…
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How to look for new contacts within project management
There are some areas of business where having a good number of contacts can be vital and project management is certainly no exception. Each project that you work on, even within the same company, may find you working with a new set of people, and these contacts may prove useful to you in the future.…
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How introverts could be the silent solution to IT project management problems
Are the best IT project solutions hiding shyly in the shadows? The loudest voices in our teams don’t have exclusivity on the best ideas. Originally published on CIO.com I received a nice email this week from Sarah, a regular reader of my blogs. It was a line of thanks for a previous post that had…
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Why IT Projects Shouldn’t Be Sheepish About BAaaS
Picture a Project Manager, a full team and a Business Analyst … on every project. IT Project Nirvana. Budgets are tight so often it’s the latter that either gets sacrificed, usually merged into someone else’s role. Many Project Managers have in the past, had parts of their job description that look more ‘BA’ than ‘PM’,…
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It’s People That Power Flexible IT Resourcing. 7 Tips To Help Get It Right
If I had a pound for every time someone in IT Project Management had talked about ‘flexible resources’ or resourcing … well, I’d have a few quid by now. It’s become something of an IT buzz word, hasn’t it, but I wonder sometimes whether we’ve lost sight of its true meaning? Distilled to its essence,…
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How to manage the fear of change in IT projects
Originally published on CIO.com As a CIO or a Project Manager you are a master of change to the point where, by now, it’s probably like a sixth sense. This was certainly how I felt. Change Management had become so much a part of my daily routine that I had almost habitualised the process.…
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How IT Project Management can make you a millionaire
That’s right! How IT Project Management can make YOU a millionaire. Er, I suppose, during your lunch break, you could buy a lottery ticket. Did you expect more from the header of this post? Did I build your expectation unrealistically? Apologies, it’s more than a devious bit of click-bait though. In IT Project Management, the temptation to…
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Why Do Bad Things Happen To Good Projects?
I was inspired by a recent Facebook post by a friend who asked, in a status update, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Within minutes, dozens of replies appeared, all along the lines of “You OK hun?” or “How can I help?”. She’s fine by the way, just wondering why despite best efforts,…