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Mar
How to Identify and Combat “Role Creep”
Creating a new team is exciting and challenging for any organization. When I had the opportunity to form a shared services team to support the...
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Dec
The Secret Support Team for IT Leaders: Goal Closers
IT teams must constantly adjust to end-user demands, budgets, timelines, and other constraints. Such a dynamic environment requires leaders to understand how to close out...
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Sep
How to Operationalize a Reorg
The term “reorg” strikes fear into the hearts of many, but it can be a healthy and productive process that positions a company for transformation,...
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Jul
It Starts with Intent: Do you want a “throat to choke,” or do you want the project to succeed?
Whenever I hear the expression “one throat to choke,” it makes me cringe. The phrase, in most cases, refers to contracting with a single vendor...
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May
Stuck with a Bad PM Tool? Here’s What to Do
Let’s say you’re planning to repaint your living room this weekend. You shop for supplies online: drop cloths, painter’s tape, and brushes. Alexa, innocently, puts...
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Feb
Toss the Binky! Project timelines may pacify some, but they set a bad precedent.
Detailed schedules and beautiful Gantt charts might stop the screaming for visibility into your project, but they won’t help you sleep at night. In the...
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Dec
Story Points Are About Complexity, Not Time
An important distinction between Agile and Waterfall methodologies is how far out you plan. In Waterfall, you need to plan out the entirety of the project....
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Dec
Get Great Requirements: A 6-Step Process for Approaching Completeness
With all the hype around Agile, I feel compelled to state the obvious: not all IT projects are Agile. (And not all should be—although it’s...
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Oct
Hitting the Brakes on a Failing Project: How to Implement a Project Pause
Many organizations try to fight against project failure by adding budget, resources, or time to the baseline. However, throwing money at the situation often leads...
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Mar
Conquering the UAT Process: Before, During & After
User Acceptance Testing can be a daunting and frustrating experience. Too often, the exercise becomes an ordeal of tight deadlines, stress, and system issues. While...
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Mar
Who Cares About Your IT Initiative?
Sure, we all want our IT initiatives to succeed. We regularly evaluate our projects, in-flight or upon completion, looking for tangible lessons to learn. We...
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Feb
PM Pointers: 3 Ways to Maximize Success with Inter-Team Dependencies
Managing an IT project often requires working with resources across other teams—not just those fully allocated to your initiative. Supporting resources and teams can be...
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