Tag: project manager
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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…
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Cultural Fit: Hire IT talent like you’d do a jigsaw
Have you ever hired a new team member who interviewed brilliantly, had exactly the qualifications you were looking for and on paper had the right experience listed on their CV … but somehow just didn’t fit in? It happens a lot. Making the perfect hire is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle and while these…
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How to be assertive and why IT project leaders must be
“Beware of Jim, he’s a bit of an ogre!” I was once warned about a project leader at a new firm I had joined. Jim wasn’t the chap’s real name, by the way, and “ogre” wasn’t quite the word that was used. Anyway, it turned out that “Jim” wasn’t really an “ogre”. He was just…
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Are the greatest IT Change Managers now facing the greatest change?
Originally published on CIO.com “As IT Project Managers we’ve managed some change over the years,” one of my oldest IT Project Management friends said in an email this week. “Now it’s us facing a great change and if we don’t we’ll become increasingly irrelevant.” In spite of this seemingly negative line, the theme of his…
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7 Dysfunctional Beliefs of IT Project Management
This journey started with sprouts. Run with me. My epiphany came last Christmas when I asked a family member why, having peeled the sprouts, she was now cutting a little cross into the base of each one. Her answer was, “I don’t know, it’s just what my Mum always did.” We Googled it and it…
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How asking ‘What if’ could predict your IT Project curved balls
I have a new favourite way to pass free time. It’s a webcomic called “xkcd” by Randall Munroe, an American cartoonist, author, engineer, scientific theorist, and the creator of the most addictive website ever! Especially the site’s “What If” column, where Randall attempts to scientifically answer outlandish, hypothetical questions sent to him by readers. Questions…
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How to Stop Grey Days Damaging IT Project Health?
It’s a bit of a strange one this. Independently, I’ve had two people ask roughly the same question – why do IT projects always go wrong at this time of year? I’d never really thought about it before. By the way, in case you happen not to be reading this around the time I’m writing…
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IT Projects – Think bigger picture. The fine line between over and under delivery
There’s a fella used to go in a local fish and chip shop. Run with me on this. It must have been every week because he was always there whenever we decided to have a chippy tea on a Friday. For about the last month though, he hasn’t been in the queue. I don’t know…
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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…
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Reframing The ‘Problem’ Of IT Recruitment To Maximise Business Benefit
Interesting scenario this week in the world of IT & Project Management Recruiting. A client asked us to find an IT Project Manager. Simple enough, we have a live database of interviewed talent and we maintain regular contact with them. What’s more, we have a relationship with the client that is based on a deep…