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7 Silver bullets to stop office politics killing your IT projects

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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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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Are you the manager of projects or peace?

Insights, Leadership

Do you spend all your time handling internal politics and conflict? Here’s how to avoid it. My friend Steven, an IT Project Manager with that all important sense of humour, told me this week that he was considering adding to the job description on his business card. Now, it’s not the first time that he

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How to waste less on IT projects

Insights, PMO, Programme Management

Reading The Project Management Institute’s (PMI) 2017 Pulse of the Profession report something jumped out and really grabbed my attention. It’s something that should be celebrated. As a profession, the Project Management industry is less wasteful. Specifically, more projects are achieving original goals. they’re coming in within budget and they are aligned with business strategy.

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Never blow an IT project budget again

Insights, PMO, Programme Management

Most of my friends, colleagues and clients are forecasting that IT budgets will increase during 2017 but according to a recent survey, many CIOs say that managing and implementing those budgets is getting tougher. Which, I suppose, stands to reason. With greater budgets comes greater responsibility and every organisation wants the best possible return on

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Five compelling reasons to plug your Project Management skills gap

Insights

In the ever changing, lightning speed IT world, effective Project Management delivers operational excellence. As every company is now, in some way, an IT operation IT Project management is something that every company needs. It is, however, something that many companies do not have. Not completely. Do you find IT Project Delivery a challenge? A

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A promotion is nice, a bonus is quickly squandered, in IT Project Management, it’s praise that pays

Insights

When motivating IT Project Management team members, praise, gratitude and recognition for ‘a job well done’ can be as powerful as a raise, a bonus or a promotion. If not more so. Think about it yourself. Your monthly salary is what you’ve earned in return for your services – that’s what’s owed to you! Nice

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Project Challenge Opens 22nd and 23rd March 2016

Insights, News

Project Challenge returns to Birmingham this Spring on the 22nd and 23rd March 2016. This free event for project managers, programme managers, PMO and planners is held once again at the National Conference Centre. Registration is now open for people wishing to visit for one or both days via the website – Project Challenge Project

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Full programme announced at Project Challenge 6th-7th October 2015

Insights, News

The full programme of presentations and seminars has been released from Project Challenge today. Project Challenge is premier expo show for the project management in the UK and takes place at Kensington Olympia in London on the 6th and 7th October, 2015. Registration for the event is free and features over 40 presentations from industry

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Autumn Project Challenge – First Sessions Announced

Insights, News

Project Challenge returns to London on the 6th and 7th October 2015 at London Olympia. The first seminars for the show have just been announced. Registration is free and is now open, please register to attend: Managing Agile, Waterfalll and Hybrid projects within the Portfolio with Jon Lewis, Director, Ninth Wave Ninth Wave has extensive

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