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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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Bubble Ltd, achieves global ISO...

  Cambridge, United Kingdom: 9th January 2018   Bubble, a...

It’s 2029 and IT project...

In a recent blog, TOP 3 WAYS TO RETAIN IT PROJECT TALENT AND HOW TO REMAIN EFFECTIVE WHEN YOU CAN’T I shared a Director People’s story of how a candidate had flipped this perennial interview question and asked, “Where does the company see me?” There must be something in the air! This week, another HR Director called to canvass my thoughts – An applicant had trumped this by asking … WHERE DO YOU SEE THE IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT INDUSTRY IN FIVE YEARS? Great question! BIG QUESTION! Like us all, the candidate was mindful about the impact of AI, but there’s an exciting prediction from the “Future of Project Management” (a collaborative “living” thought leadership initiative) about where Project Management might fit within organisations by the end of the decade – read on to find out more!

IT Project Management Capability Assessment and other project spring cleaning tips

I love this out of office reply from Collette, an IT Project leader who takes herself out of the project portfolio the first Friday and Monday of every March just to have a proper delve into how they do things, assess how aligned their resources and ambitions are, and imagine how they could operate better. A Spring Clean – what a great idea. IT PROJECT MANAGEMENT CAPABILITY ASSESSMENT We measure how successful our projects are all year round, in terms of Return On Investment (ROI), budgets, delivery times met, etc but an IT Project Management Capability Assessment checks in on how effective the delivery frameworks and processes that underpin project success are.

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...

Heading up a...

Private equity, or venture capital, is an investment made on the strength of rigorous analysis with clear intention and purpose. Private equity investment firms...

New technologies revolutionise...

Experts agree that as the world becomes fully connected, a non-stop, always-on communicative environment is changing the way we live and work, making project...

Projects and programmes...

I was recently reading an essay by the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins. In it, he observes peoples’ inclination to assign information into discrete ‘pigeon-holes’...

Dynamic Project Planning...

Every project starts with a well defined plan and schedule. But the reality offers a lot of uncertainty so the project may very well...

How to Suffer...

How to Suffer Successfully, is the title of chapter four in Alain de Botton’s first book of philosophy, How Proust Can Change Your Life....

Stakeholder Management Maturity

Ethical management and corporate governance are about balancing the competing needs of all of the organisations stakeholders, balancing long and short term goals and...

Kinley Consulting Announces...

Kinley Consulting Managing Director Janet Parkin predicts that virtual teams, social technology, green projects, project value and PMOs will be the trending topics for...

200th Project Management...

Popular podcast celebrates 200 episodes of helping people understand project management with an interview extravaganza show. SILVERADO, November 29, 2011 – The 200th episode of...

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