With the success of my first eBook, I am delighted to publish Volume II. The book covers a wealth of topics from Stonseed’s Project Management as a Service and our IT services, to an array Project and Programme Management issues. Volume II of Straight Talk on Project Management is now available for download as an […]
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I was sitting on the M1 in traffic the other day, the gantry lights above were displaying a huge red X above the inside lane, signifying that it was closed due to an accident. Most cars got over into another lane as soon as it was safe for them to do so. However, three lorries
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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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Project management is not only required in big organisations and businesses whereby multiple projects are being handled on a daily basis. If you think about it, we all manage projects to a degree. Even those of us who work from home, we have a number of different tasks to carry out for our clients, and
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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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Need an alternative to IT project apps? The Project Management app market seems to be saturated, each promising that theirs is the definitive solution. It’s like diets and self-help books! If each is so great why do we need so many? It does make choosing the right one very hard. Of course, no two IT
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The gig economy is here to stay. For example, over 15% of workers are ‘self employed’ in the UK today. This means that the earlier you adapt, the more likely you are to reap long-term benefits. From hiring patterns to retention programmes, the gig economy calls for a deep review of the management methodologies that
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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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Originally published on CIO.com Traditionally a project is judged complete when it is transitioned into service. Maybe it’s time to re-evaluate this endpoint. A CIO asked me this recently because his team was expressing an interest in extending their role so that they could assess their project ‘from the other side’. Traditionally, as a PM
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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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