Tag: Project Adivce
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Are you passionately curious? It’s IT Project Management’s success secret, and size matters
Why do some projects stir a passion within you and others leave you less revved up? Could unlocking the secret lead to fewer IT Project failures? It’s true, isn’t it? The more passionate about a task you are, the more likely you are to succeed. Even doing the dishes can be a chore or a…
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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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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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Defrag your IT to-do list
After a successful Bank Holiday building flat pack furniture, I decided that I would get proactive on all the other little jobs around the house. You know the ones. The loose this, the broken that, the “in need of oiling” the other. They’re the jobs that are mentally scheduled for completion “at some point” largely…
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Five Steps To Prevent Confirmation Bias Impacting Your IT Project Success
Are you guilty of confirmation bias? It’s a psychological habit where you filter your reality until it resembles something more aligned with your existing beliefs. I think we’re all a bit guilty of it from time to time. For example, you think that your co-workers are lazy so all you see is them sloping off…