IT organizations are under increasing pressure to deliver more with less, and are challenged to improve alignment with evolving business objectives. IT’s performance is constantly being evaluated and, with compliance regulations, there
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5 Ways To Deal With Stakeholders Who Don’t Listen
Projects involve a lot of people and for the project manager, getting them to listen and understand what is happening on the project can be a challenge. We speak to many project managers who say
Ten Six Consulting Predicts the Hot Topics for Project Management in 2013
Jon Swain, President of Ten Six Consulting, predicts that BYOD, cost savings, project entrepreneurship, sponsorship and a business focus will be the trending topics for project management during 2013.
5 Reasons Team Members Don’t Deliver On Their Promises
When project team members fail to complete tasks on time, it’s tempting to believe it is because they don’t want to. Somehow, however hard we try, we can’t help thinking that they don’t care about the project as much as we do. This is very unlikely to be true. If you have started the project off correctly, built a
Do You To-Do?
“The to-do list is nothing but a set of goals – not the big goals of live but the small day-to-day ones that we have to get through on our way to achieving our vision,” writes Subroto Bagchi in
The New Microsoft Project 2013
When Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer announced the new Office 365 on Monday July 16th, it got us wondering what all this will mean for Microsoft Project users in the future. So we signed up for
Distributed Teams: Making Them Work
ProjectsAtWork.com has recently released a new white paper about working in distributed teams. The focus is really on Agile teams, but many of the findings apply to all sorts of project teams where people are based in different locations.
The Barometer On Change: 5 Themes for Change
Moorhouse has recently released the results of their survey into what is driving change and how effective it is. The team surveyed around 200 UK Board members and those who report directly to the Board. As a group,
Four Types Of Dependencies
Wouldn’t it be great if projects existed in isolation? Project managers would have full control over the project environment, users would never change their minds about requirements because of something they saw elsewhere, and you’d never be caught out by a shift in office politics. Unfortunately, that never happens. Projects are always dependent on something […]
3 Ways to Realize Project Benefits
The point of completing projects is to get the benefit from the change that is delivered. Projects are done to improve things, so it is important to know what benefits you can expect from a project and how these will be measured.