Picture a Project Manager, a full team and a Business Analyst … on every project. IT Project Nirvana. Budgets are tight so often it’s the latter that either gets sacrificed, usually merged into someone else’s role. Many Project Managers have in the past, had parts of their job description that look more ‘BA’ than ‘PM’, […]
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If I had a pound for every time someone in IT Project Management had talked about ‘flexible resources’ or resourcing … well, I’d have a few quid by now. It’s become something of an IT buzz word, hasn’t it, but I wonder sometimes whether we’ve lost sight of its true meaning? Distilled to its essence,
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Originally published on CIO.com As a CIO or a Project Manager you are a master of change to the point where, by now, it’s probably like a sixth sense. This was certainly how I felt. Change Management had become so much a part of my daily routine that I had almost habitualised the process.
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That’s right! How IT Project Management can make YOU a millionaire. Er, I suppose, during your lunch break, you could buy a lottery ticket. Did you expect more from the header of this post? Did I build your expectation unrealistically? Apologies, it’s more than a devious bit of click-bait though. In IT Project Management, the temptation to
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I was inspired by a recent Facebook post by a friend who asked, in a status update, “Why do bad things happen to good people?” Within minutes, dozens of replies appeared, all along the lines of “You OK hun?” or “How can I help?”. She’s fine by the way, just wondering why despite best efforts,
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What can we learn from the top CIOs in the UK? Originally published in CIO.com CIO.co.uk recently published its Top 100 most transformative and disruptive CIOs in the UK. Each name on the list has given a neat interview that gives a unique insight into the thinking of this country’s leading CIOs. I wondered if common
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Who’s Best? And How To Survive Without Either On Your Payroll… Driving home, listening to the radio the other day, the Shangri-Las came on with their classic hit “Leader Of The Pack”. It jumped out at me, not least because of the noisy motorbike sound effects but also because I had been contemplating the value
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I was fascinated this week by a farmer in a combine harvester going up and down in a field adjacent to the road I was driving along. I pulled over to watch … it’s a man and machines thing! The farmer pulled over too and we briefly talked about the vehicle he was driving. I
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Originally published on CIO.com We record ‘lessons learnt’ as part of the project management process but do we actually learn from them? Recent experience and the number of projects that fail to deliver suggest we could probably all do better at learning from lessons learnt. It is worth considering this for a moment … Do
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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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