Tag: project management
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How to Best Use a Project Management Tool with a Virtual Team
The remote employment trend is being adopted by many organizations nowadays, given its multiple benefits such as low operational costs and ease of management. More and more teams worldwide are counting on remote employees to run the show, with most of them working with a computing device and an internet connection. Though this employment model…
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The problem with remote project teams
It is more common than ever before that project managers now have to manage remote project teams. These teams might be in a different business location in the same country or, equally likely, in a different country and time zone altogether. Companies of all sizes now regularly outsource work to take advantage of skilled…
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IT Project Management boring? Are you sure you’re doing it right?
Project Management is the second most boring job in the world, according to a recent study. When you factor in that working in IT also makes the top ten you would be forgiven for imagining that all IT Project Managers must be constantly nodding off on the job. Who did they ask? It reminds me…
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To be a solid IT project manager, be more flexible
I just gave some seemingly contrary advice. “You need to be more solid, steady, dependable, consistent – you’re all over the place,” I told an experienced IT Project Manager friend who is having one of those blips where nothing goes right. “OK, how?” he asked. I thought and answered,…
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The IT Sector Doesn’t Need ‘Just Another Recruitment Consultant’ – Next Time Choose A Partner.
Why set up a new IT recruitment agency when a Google search of the term returns about 46.2 million results? A crowded marketplace that! Thing is, whilst as an employer we could find lots of agencies, consultants and service providers – we struggled to find one partner. And this…
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Is Facebook’s New Recruitment Feature Any Good for IT?
So Facebook appears to have taken on LinkedIn with its new job ads feature – but is it any good? As I write, “Facebook Jobs” has launched in the USA and Canada but anticipate a global roll out before too long. As you would expect, Facebook has made it as easy as possible for both…
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Don’t let a false sense of insecurity sink your IT project
Getting lulled into a false sense of SECURITY can be bad enough – in your personal life, in sport and, of course, especially in business. Last year my friend’s company boasted about a new contract on social media before the client had signed on the dotted line only to have their bitterest rival swoop and…
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Why and how IT hirers should embrace social media
I was amazed to learn this week that a UK firm, one that is a major user of technology to deliver its services and a large employer of millennials … bans its staff from using social media during office hours. It got me thinking. Given that increasingly this age…
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Small Businesses Need Project Management
Often when we are writing, reading or talking about project management there is the tendency to assume it is all about major corporations managing multi-million pound projects. But project management is not just for large companies; project management is just as crucial for small businesses, and if a project-centric approach is taken right from the…
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6 Golden Rules of Project Management
A project manager’s position carries a lot of responsibilities, and for those who find themselves in this position for the first time in their career, there are many challenges that lie ahead. However, you will gradually get used to it, and become more efficient with every subsequent project. Since project management is a very important…