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Oct
Now You’re Agile: Stop Sucking at Sponsorship
Agile is about empowering teams and individuals. The roles defined by Agile are: Product Owner, Scrum Master, and team member. Not listed? Project sponsor. That...
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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
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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Jan
Finding the Right Champion for Change
Change is HARD. As a matter of fact, I often say “technology is easy, but people are hard.” You can guess the reaction I get...
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Jun
5 Risk Tolerance Considerations for Project Managers
How Much Risk You Are Willing to Tolerate? Every project manager deals with risk assessment and risk management. If done right, the project manager will...
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Jun
CIOs: Never Ask for Money Again
How Do You Fund Your IT Investments? First of all, if you are an IT manager or executive and have asked for money to fund...
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Apr
10 Ingredients of a Successful User Acceptance Test (UAT)
The User Acceptance Test (UAT) is a critical component of any IT implementation. The goal of a UAT is to validate if a system or...
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Apr
7 Elements of an IT Project Health Report
A health check is a formal examination assessing if an IT project is on track and under control, and serving as a valuable continuous improvement tool. The...
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Feb
How to Cancel a Failing IT Project
“This implementation is going nowhere fast and I am canceling it,” said the CIO. I was in shock. In an IT career spanning decades I...
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Feb
Diagnosing a Dead-End IT Project: When to Fail Fast and Move On
An IT department’s most critical point of failure lies in its inability to cancel a dead-end project. Canceling a project can be a great move,...
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Aug
9 Symptoms of a Bad IT Project Sponsor
Tweet: 9 Symptoms of a Bad IT Project Sponsor #ITProjects #ProjectManagement http://ctt.ec/aOb4L+ The right project sponsor can make or break the success of a project,...
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