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How to fail well...

Failure Is the new success. Here are five ways that you can embrace...

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Why do projects fail? It's a question that invites a lot of interest and...

Embrace the change: Getting...

New IT systems for a growing business can be an exciting prospect and...

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Kick Start Your Project Management Office (PMO) – Five Key Areas of Focus and Assessment

by David Cotreageve - Stoneseed Ltd In 2020, the Project Management Institute (PMI) Pulse of the Profession reported that less than half (36%) of...

Six lessons IT Project Management can learn from Spitting Image

Six Lessons IT Project Management Can Learn from Spitting Image

Business Analysis – Driving business agility through the Covid pandemic

With the UK economy stuttering, businesses are having to react and become more resilient, leaner and more efficient. We are seeing a growth in the number Business Change projects, stoking demand for Business Analysis skillset.

How the experience of failed project managers could be the key to developing a great one?

What makes a great IT Project Manager? You'll have read many posts on the subject. I have too. This week, , ‘Never, ever fear failure. Seven...

When IT Project Management processes alone won’t deliver, you need luck – three ways you can create your own luck!

Have you ever toiled with a cursed IT Project? Imagine your server not arriving because there is a man standing on a gantry on the...

NINE LESSONS IT PROJECT MANAGERS CAN LEARN FROM THE LEICESTER CITY FAIRYTALE

  Probably like you, over the past week I have been rather swept away by the wonderful fairytale that is Leicester City's league title win...

Balancing The IT Project Management Skills You Need With The Talent & The Resources You Have – Is PMaaS The Silver Bullet?

"To achieve success in all the projects that my Project Management Office is handling I need either an extra twenty staff or an extra...

Your IT Project is only as strong as your weakest link

Thanks to a reader of my CIO.com column, Gareth, who wrote to me with an idea for an IT Project Management blog. "Hi David," he writes, "Have...

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Unleashing success! What IT Project Management can learn from Crufts

If you’ve ever trained a puppy, you’ll know the value of a “treat” to reward good behaviour, like sitting or staying on command. I think most dogs know the word “biscuit” before they learn their own name, mind you, I know some PMs who are as partial to a bourbon or chocolate malted milk, she writes dunking a digestive! At Crufts I saw a lot of treats passed from owner to dog with a “good boy” or “good girl”. Rewards are vital to the process.

Self-Study APM PMQ Tips

Whilst self-study is a necessary step for anyone studying for the APM PMQ, or indeed most other project management qualifications, it can be difficult to know where to start. We have put together some helpful tips to help you...

From ‘a meh thing’ to amazing! How PMaaS can help build innovation into IT Projects

Experience and anecdotal evidence suggest that Bex isn’t alone in seeking a little bit more. In many organisations now, IT project teams feel that the necessary fixed scope, set budgets, tight deadlines, limited resources and defined roles and responsibilities, leave little or no room for experimentation and innovation. The thing is, if you’re getting the results, do you need the added sizzle of innovating? I think that you do.

Every IT project needs a Dale!

This is one of the things I love about Stoneseed, our team, and the culture we have evolved. When we talk about someone behind their back, it’s always positive and hugely complimentary!  If you haven’t yet had the pleasure, Dale Beeton is Stoneseed’s Head of Client Engagement and, as our clients will attest, he is one of those “extra milers” that make a real difference – and not just from a business perspective.

Project Management: How To Improve Your Leadership Skills

Every organization understands the importance of having a good project manager to supervise the achievement of organizational goals and objectives. If an organization achieves its aims through the process of project management, it can see marked changes in employee...

What Contributes to Risk in Project Management

When it comes to challenges, one of the biggest that we face is preparing for emerging risks. These are those risks that were previously unknown, or any familiar risk that manifests in a new way. All too often, our...

Introducing a project management framework: Why it helps and how to do it

Introduction Organisations who are new to running projects might want to begin using a project management framework, but they may not know where to start. They might not have the experience to introduce a framework themselves and may decide to...

IT Project Management: Nailing know-how, but are we wondering why?

The trainer was explaining the team’s fairly unique binary approach to scrum sprints, which effectively boils down to them having two duration categories – A) one week long and B) three weeks long. The new hire found this interesting and enquired about the reason behind this approach. In her last job, length and number of sprints would be decided at a goal setting meeting, a twelve-week scrum project could have 15–20 Scrum sprints, which could be as short as a handful of days and as long as a month. So, “Why?” seemed a reasonable question but it was met with either blank expressions or an unsatisfactory explanation. The trainer did not know, nobody on the team could answer either.

Total Enterprise Reinvention? Sweeping digital transformation will need new brooms!!!

The next couple of years will see extensive Digital Transformation and regeneration of many, if not most, businesses and organisations.   It’s not a bold or groundbreaking prediction, I mean, it’s happening already! Game changing technologies are revolutionising business operations and outcomes the so-called Industrial Revolution 4.0 is well underway, Accenture are even talking of an advanced group, The Reinventorsm who, they say are embracing “Total Enterprise Reinvention” – a “deliberate strategy centred on a strong digital core.”   Digital transformation, regeneration, reinvention – there’s quite the frisson of excitement where it’s happening … but I do foresee a problem that few are talking about …    … the digital elephant in the room is …   … where are all the IT Project Managers coming from to manage all these HUGE IT projects?

5 Tips for Your First Project Management Qualification

Project management qualifications are a great way of demonstrating knowledge and understanding of project management principles. A qualification gives you formal recognition of your professional knowledge as well as a better understanding of relevant approaches to project management. Undertaking...
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