Originally published on PMToday.co.uk I took a train to London recently. Train journeys are like being given the gift of time. Once settled, I like to work, read the newspaper, take in the latest blogs from CIO.com or chew over the latest insight from the PMI. Then, other times, I like to just close my […]
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I just witnessed an IT Project team undergo a massive positive transformation … all thanks to a video camera and an innovative CIO. The team was going through one of phases. You ever have these? Nothing was wrong … but nothing felt right. They were delivering IT Projects on time but not feeling proud of
<img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6073" src="https://www.projectaccelerator.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/Excel-for-project-managers-300×133.jpg" alt="Excel for project managers\” width=\”300\” height=\”133\” /> I’m not going to give some long-winded introduction on Excel, we are all professionals, we all open up Excel files and we get its importance in an organisation. Yet, the PM world still scoffs at it, so I’m going to rebut that notion
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It makes sense doesn\’t it? Which exercise DVD are you going to buy? The one that features 50 different gruelling exercises or the one that promises you\’ll drop a dress size in a week? Harvard Business School professor, Theodore Levitt, once put this beautifully, “People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want a
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I have come to a conclusion this week … most IT Project challenges are not solved by theoretical, intelligent design. Now, I make a living delivering project success through proper planning, processes, governance, etc. … in other words theoretical, intelligent design – so let me explain what I mean. After I\’d written my blog for CIO.com
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Interviewing an IT Project Management candidate this week, one of my colleagues heard an answer to one of those \’standard interview questions\’ that made us all think. The question was … \”Where do you see yourself in five years?\” The answer was … \”I have no idea!\” Back in the day, this may have led
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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 you ever written a blog along the lines of \’you\’re only ever as strong as your weakest link.\’\” Gareth was inspired to get in touch after a train journey home
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Can certain words cast a negative shadow on Project Management thinking? Originally published on CIO.com I walked into a Project Management Office recently, and on the wall, in large letters above the Project Leader\’s desk was the phrase \’No \”Ifs\”, \”Buts\” Or \”Maybes\”\’. At first, it looked like one of those platitudes that you often
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Because the terms \”project\” and \”project manager\” are open to so many different interpretations, employers are naturally wary of candidates who confidently call themselves project managers, while being unable to produce any evidence that they are indeed project professionals. This is why most project organisations, businesses and public sector programmes, specify project qualifications as a
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Interesting perspective this week from my friend and fellow IT Project Leader Malc. Malc emailed to tell me that he had recently reframed his team\’s thinking on post-project delivery analysis. What he has done is pretty interesting and he says it is adding demonstrable value to the process. \”We always used to look back at
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