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Six steps to never making another bad IT hire
Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh once said that his bad hires had cost the company “well over $100 million.” Whilst it’s reassuring that a firm that usually gets everything so right … occasionally doesn’t … it is mind boggling how much a bad hire can cost. I mean, there’s the obvious cost of having to recruit…
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5 Phases of a Project Life Cycle
Managing a project is not an easy task, no matter how skilled you are or what kind of project it is. There are lots of things that can go wrong in a project due to unexpected threats, time constraints, changing demands of clients/stakeholders, etc. That is why you should divide the project into manageable steps…
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As IT Projects Evolve in Complexity, You Need Something More RADICAL Than A RAID Log.
Think of the implementation phase of an IT Project. Exciting, right? All that pitching, planning and preparation has led to this point! You are ready and raring to go and as you line up the road ahead, your attention will have turned to how you document and communicate within your project. At this point, you…
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IT dependant firms must focus on talent recruitment and retention
Businesses that are reliant on IT need to pay special attention to their recruitment and retention strategies in 2018 as a recent survey suggests that a third (32%) of IT professionals hope to switch jobs within the next 12 months. Given that just about every business is now…
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WFA is the new WFH and it is unleashing huge IT project potential
Have you also discovered that if you can work from home – you can work from anywhere? Literally – anywhere! If you can work anywhere you manage a project from anywhere
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Securing a Better Position – How To Get Promoted As a Project Manager
Whether you’ve entered at ground level and feel you’re experienced enough to take the next step up the career ladder as a project manager, or you’ve just completed one of the many courses for project managers that are out there and are feeling now’s the time to take control of your career, getting promoted isn’t…
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IT Projects. Do We Actually Ever Learn Lessons Learnt?
Originally published on CIO.com We record ‘lessons learnt’ as part of the project management process but do we actually learn from them? Recent experience and the number of projects that fail to deliver suggest we could probably all do better at learning from lessons learnt. It is worth considering this for a moment … Do…
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Who needs a PMO?
I was reminded of an old Monty Python sketch today. Did you ever see Life of Brian? One of the characters Reg, played by John Cleese, asks “What have the Romans ever done for us?” One by one, other characters pipe up with loads of suggestions … medicine … roads … public order … Eventually,…
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Where does an IT Project Manager’s job end?
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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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…
