Category: General Discussion
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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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Project Management Milestones
There are many issues that face the project manager. One of which is to set project management milestones. Working towards specific goals throughout the lifecycle of a project makes sure that everyone is pulling in the same direction and standards are achieved. But what do these project management milestones look like? What goals can be…
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Marketing Yourself On Linkedin As A Freelance Project Manager
As a freelance project manager, you will want to create a presence on the professional platform that hits all the right notes. But how? LinkedIn boasts 260 million monthly users, nearly half of whom access the platform daily. As a platform, it is the place where professionals gather, many of whom go on to attract…
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Project management at home – how to bring your work skills home
Project management skills are not only useful in the office – they are highly transferable and can be used in the home. The word project is used for so many things – work project, class project, project management but they all have one thing in common. Whatever type of project you are planning then you…
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How to prevent holiday hold ups delaying your IT Project!
Who is your IT Project’s Leader? At this time of year, are you really leading or is your company’s calendar more in charge? I ask because, independently, three Project Managers have told me that they are pulling their hair out because of unanticipated roadblocks along their projects’ critical paths. In each case, the cause is…
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The quick start guide to planning in project management
Planning for any sort of project is complex and challenging. You are going to need to apply skills and knowledge from all areas of project management. This means handling a huge amount of information. Despite this, project planning is a logical and structured process. With that in mind, in this blog post, we are going…
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Happy tenth birthday to Stoneseed!
Ten years ago, a handful of firms had started to promote IT from business technology support to a strategic business partner but, for most, IT was still a back office function. That’s not to say that the projects weren’t complex and essential, they totally were. The thinking though, for many, was “this is what we…
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Project Managers: Improved Communication Strategies
If you search on LinkedIn, you’ll find more than 2 million Project Managers. This is a profession that has a huge impact on the daily lives of people everywhere. My goal is to help Project Managers communicate more effectively with their teams. Communication is the lifeblood of project management. PMs need to be able to…
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When to admit you need more help with a project?
As a project manager it is important to understand when you need more help with a project. Here we look at when you should admit you need this help. The experts at Parallel Project Training believe too often in the workplace we can be reluctant to ask for help, seeing it as a sign of…
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7 Behavioral Skills Project Managers Should Develop
You might have met those people at least once in your lifetime – people who are little rough around the edges, who might seriously need some sort of social skills and who we wonder how they ever manage to make it through a day without getting into problems with someone. All because they lack basic…