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Aligning IT Project And Business Strategies. Why You Should. How You Can.

Previously published on cio.com Everything that your business does should be aligned with your business strategy. Here’s why.. My friend’s business is delivering financial services and he ensures that all his staff are suitably trained to provide the best advice, another friend’s business is carrying bus passengers, his drivers know the local roads, what time […]

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Since when did BA stand for bloomin’ amazing?

Insights

Previously published on CIO.com A great BA is worth their weight in gold, here’s why…… The IT business analyst role has traditionally been one that facilitates communication between IT and business stakeholders. Subsequently, business analysts have always had great skills in this area, adept at both verbal and written communication. Which is why I am

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Straight Talk on Project Management VOLUME II – Free E-Book

Insights, Leadership, Programme Management

With the success of my first eBook, I am delighted to publish Volume II. The book covers a wealth of topics from Stonseed’s Project Management as a Service and our IT services, to an array Project and Programme Management issues. Volume II of Straight Talk on Project Management is now available for download as an

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When Angling For Exciting New Project Talent – Fish In Exciting New Pools And Don’t Use The Same Old Bait!

Careers, Insights

The internet has been brilliant for recruitment. As an employer, you can now Access Talent from wider pools than ever and through social media practically pre-interview prospective colleagues before they even set foot through your door. Despite this, a friend just complained about feeling uninspired by respondents to a recent job advert. She showed me

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Prioritising IT projects has never mattered more

Insights, Leadership

IT Project prioritisation is crucial for your organisation. Selecting the wrong projects, which don’t deliver strategic value or the required ROI can impact the bottom line and mean that your business reduces its chance of hitting targets and achieving goals. You should take a day or two (or longer if your portfolio and budgets demand

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Re-thinking IT recruitment is not rocket science. Well, not always!

Careers, Insights, Leadership

Where do your new IT hires come from? Other IT companies? How’s that working out? If you’re finding the traditional talent pools are drying up, you are not alone. In the UK, British Gas hired an ex-NASA data scientist to progress its Hive smart heating project, who said IT recruitment wasn’t rocket science?! In the

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7 Silver bullets to stop office politics killing your IT projects

Insights, Leadership

Office politics! Working in IT Project Management, given the profession’s prominent role in the facilitation of business strategy and driving business change, you’d think we’d be above it! Project managers and leaders are among the most intelligent individuals you could hope to work with and yet many IT Projects are still scuppered by workplace politics.

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Are you a decisive or a divisive decision maker??

Leadership

Every manager and leader has to make decisions – good ones make the right decisions most of the time. However, the way decisions are made and communicated can either lead to division and discord or to understanding and a commitment to making the decision ‘stick’. Divisive Decision Makers Divisive decision makers give the appearance of

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Is ‘Tinder for recruitment’ the best way to access IT talent?

Careers, Insights

In today’s candidate led IT recruitment market, hiring can be more expensive and time-consuming than ever. It is, therefore, in your best interests to balance the recruiting reality in your favour by optimising your practices so that they deliver not just great talent but a real chance of retaining that talent once hired. There is

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7 Reasons why IT Project Managers were born to blog

Careers, Insights, Leadership, PMO, Programme Management

“You’re so passionate about Project Management, you should write a blog about it,” one of my colleagues said a couple of years back. That’s how it started. I wrote one blog and then, having found it quite enjoyable, I wrote a second and then a third. I got some nice feedback, got shared, had a

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