Category: General Discussion
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3 Secrets to Perfecting a Project Portfolio Management Strategy
Considering how unclear goals, weak ownership and operational inefficiencies challenge the status quo, bridging the gap between strategy and implementation is on every project portfolio manager’s mind. Given how project delivery hinges on competent staff producing the exact deliverables requested for, it comes as second nature to seasoned project managers to complement their project portfolio…
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A bitesize guide to KPIs for a project
KPIs, or Key Performance Indicators, are the clearly outlined measures that are vital when it comes to tracking the path of progress towards the defined goals of a project. Whether the project is a digital marketing campaign, an office relocation, a major event or an infrastructure project KPIs are an essential tool in helping project…
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Seven Lessons That IT Recruitment Can, Like, Learn From Love Island
So I was watching Love Island and like, apart from noticing, like, how many times the contestants, like, say, “like” in every sentence. it dawned on me how much IT Recruitment can learn from it. Run with me! Don’t Be Fooled By The Spray Tan! I wonder how long the contestants spent in the local…
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Pros and cons of freelance project management
No matter what field you work in the idea of becoming a freelancer is a dream that many professionals want to make a reality at some point in their career. The opportunity to be your own boss and have more choice over the projects that you work on and, of course, who you work for…
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At harvest time what can IT project managers learn from farmers?
I was fascinated this week by a farmer in a combine harvester going up and down in a field adjacent to the road I was driving along. I pulled over to watch … it’s a man and machines thing! The farmer pulled over too and we briefly talked about the vehicle he was driving. I…
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IT Recruitment – Passion, Privilege or Pain?
“If you can win the war in talent, everything else changes,” so said SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia describing how he believes “recruiting is a mission-critical function” for a business, not a task that you should crowbar into your busy day after all your other tasks have been crossed off your list. In his “Focus on…
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IT Projects. Do We Actually Ever Learn Lessons Learnt?
Originally published on CIO.com We record ‘lessons learnt’ as part of the project management process but do we actually learn from them? Recent experience and the number of projects that fail to deliver suggest we could probably all do better at learning from lessons learnt. It is worth considering this for a moment … Do…
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5 Questions you need to ask your project management software vendor for a successful implementation
Capterra, the free directory service for software selection, in a recently published analysis* of project management software vendors, mentioned that there are more than 680 project management software products in the market.These software products might offer free trials or basic features free for small businesses with less than 5 employees, but for other medium-sized or…
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7 Reasons why IT Project Managers were born to blog
“You’re so passionate about Project Management, you should write a blog about it,” one of my colleagues said a couple of years back. That’s how it started. I wrote one blog and then, having found it quite enjoyable, I wrote a second and then a third. I got some nice feedback, got shared, had a…
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Eight Advantages a Specialist IT Recruiter Gives To Your Business
“Talent supply remains the number one challenge facing digital tech businesses in the UK”, this according to Tech Nation’s 2017 survey. It found that over half (55%) of employers said THIS was their main business challenge. According to Robert Half, the tech talent shortage is “no longer just an inconvenience for employers — it’s quickly…