Tag: IT Project Management
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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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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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A change is as good as unrest. How to engage disengaged stakeholders
A change is as good as a rest, so the old saying goes. Recently, it has struck me, that change can actually be a precursor to unrest, at least with some IT Change Projects. While reviewing one customer’s challenges, I identified that it wasn’t scope creep that was impacting the project, nor was it any…
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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,…
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Seven secrets of CIO success as taught by the CIO 100
What can we learn from the top CIOs in the UK? Originally published in CIO.com CIO.co.uk recently published its Top 100 most transformative and disruptive CIOs in the UK. Each name on the list has given a neat interview that gives a unique insight into the thinking of this country’s leading CIOs. I wondered if common…
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IT Project Leaders or Managers?
Who’s Best? And How To Survive Without Either On Your Payroll… Driving home, listening to the radio the other day, the Shangri-Las came on with their classic hit “Leader Of The Pack”. It jumped out at me, not least because of the noisy motorbike sound effects but also because I had been contemplating the value…