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How to fail well...

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

5 Skills Needed To...

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...

Does a Project Manager...

What makes a successful project manager is a combination of their academic abilities,...
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Managing Stakeholder Attitudes

This post will look at the various...

Ten Benefits of Good Project...

The benefits of good project management serve...

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 productivity. However, at the end of the day, a project manager has to be a good leader in order to successfully achieve the desired goals. A good project management process affects the overall productivity of the organization as well as helping in reaching an optimized balance in costs. The cost efficiency...

Make Your Steering...

Far too many sponsors, executives and project managers waste far too much time in ineffective steering committee meetings or ‘project/program control board’ meetings (both...

Kissing lots of...

In many respects, the way a specialist IT recruitment firm will go about the business of securing the right talent will not differ greatly...

How the experience...

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...

Rewarding your team

In The Power of Happiness, I suggested a ‘happy team’ was more likely to be an outcome of a motivated team, than something you...

Practical Stakeholder Engagement

As we all know the problem with good practice is it slowly slips away as we respond to time pressures and expediency and bad...

NEWSPEAK – is...

Last year I went along to see Headlong’s stage adaptation of George Orwell’s masterpiece ‘Nineteen Eighty-Four’ (at the Melbourne Festival); which started me thinking………....

Stakeholders – from...

Project stakeholders can be helpful, obstructionist and almost anything in between - but for most stakeholders, how you deal with this is largely up...

Stakeholders expect good...

Stakeholders are becoming increasingly vocal in their demands for ‘good governance’.  The rise of stakeholder activism (remembering shareholders are stakeholders) is increasingly affecting the...

Who values value?

Projects and programs are undertaken to enable an organisation to achieve part of its strategy, usually by creating new or better ways of working. ...

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