What did you make of the deliberate spelling mistake in the header? Hopefully, it got your attention on a page full of search engine results or list of blogs fighting for your attention. Did you notice it? I just did a little experiment by presenting 10 people in the office with five genuine job ads. […]
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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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\”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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If you\’re looking on eBay or searching on Google, you make your search criteria as specific as possible so you don\’t waste time with results that don\’t fit. It\’s the same with a job search. Either consciously or subconsciously the criteria that fits with a candidate\’s search is what stands out when they scour the
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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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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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When your firm loses a great team member, they take with them a business value that cannot be easily replaced. First, there\’s the rich knowledge that they have of your organisation, its products, culture, systems and processes. They may have fostered relationships with your clients and internally with colleagues over many years and they have
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Changepoint a leading provider of project and portfolio management (PPM), enterprise architecture (EA) and professional services automation applications (PSA), today announced that Blue Ball Solutions has become Changepoint’s first partner to achieve Platinum status. As Changepoint’s first dedicated European partner, Blue Ball has worked with numerous global enterprise clients to achieve technology-led business transformation goals, including
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Its not just Dilbert cartoons where projects are doomed before they begin. Real-life PMOs are no stranger to failure. In the past three years, PMI research found that 75 percent of Project Management Offices closed or failed to add value. Yet, while project success metrics are less than optimistic, effective project management can deliver tremendous
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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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