Category: Project Management Advice
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Operational? Inspirational? Which Stoneseeder best fits your need?
Stoneseed engagements tend to fall into two categories – “Operate” or “Advisory”. Or as a colleague put it this week … “operational” or “inspirational”. Stoneseed employs a team of Project Management and Technical Professionals, delivering services through a flexible, on-demand resourcing model PMaaS (Project Management as a Service). From strategy to service delivery, this cost-effective…
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FREE IT Project Management eBook
David writes blogs based on his many years in Project Management and also on ideas from the team here at Stoneseed. Light-hearted, insightful and funny, David’s blog cover all things Project Management, Leadership, Best Practice, PMO, Business Analysis and of course Project Management as a Service.
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Fortune cookie: All will go well with your new project (except..?)
Still buoyed by my fortune cookie, and for fun, I’ve donned my virtual apron, mixed up a bowl of flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil and knocked up a batch of six other fortune cookies that IT Project teams might find useful reminders. Enjoy!!
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Too much information! How IT project process can get lost in the clutter
Many organisations are unknowingly compromising their strategic business and IT Project effectiveness through information overload?
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Embracing a new era of agility in project management
Agile was created for the software development industry but it was such a success that its application saw its rapid uptake in other industries as well. Agility is an essential tool that can help make the leap to the true digital age more efficient. A good project manager course such as APM PFQ – the…
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6 Leadership Hints for Digital Workforce Management
Updated: 05 June 2023 – It’s been over three years since much of the previously office-based population of the UK started working from home or taking a hybrid approach – with some days in the office and some at home. Hybrid working may not last forever, especially as more and more young people at the…
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Clarifying KPIs for Project Success
Updated 17 May 2023: Key Performance Indicators, KPIs, are a very important quantitative measure that will allow you to see how you are progressing with a project and help you work out where you need to improve. If they are identified correctly, they can be a valuable diagnostic tool. However, they should be relevant to…
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10 Steps to the Perfect Project Meeting
I was in a meeting earlier this week that was typical of so many project meetings I have attended. A rough agenda had been drawn up by the person chairing the meeting but no-one else had seen it before the meeting started so we didn’t quite know what to expect. And one person was…
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20 Things Successful Project Managers Do
The difference between a truly successful project manager and one who is less than successful can often come down to the little things like building up a good rapport with your team and with your stakeholders. But sometimes, no matter how well a team and project are managed, failure seems to loom large from…
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Do Project Managers Need Business Knowledge?
I have been debating recently with some colleagues about whether project managers need to have in-depth business knowledge of the business area in which they are managing projects. By in-depth we specifically meant having previously worked in the business itself before becoming a project manager. In fact, there are some organisations that use…