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When Annual doesn’t mean every year

Watching the BBC programme “Forces of Nature” made me think about why the challenges of “Annual”  Projects should not be under-estimated. The programme explained that as the Earth travels around the sun – it never, ever returns to the same place. Even the orbit of the earth isn’t “annual” in the way I thought it […]

13 July 2016 0

Simple Project Portfolio Management

Typically we have many more ideas for projects than we have resources to execute them. We need some simple processes to determine what projects to take on. Agreeing priorities for your projects when you have multiple different stakeholders can be difficult – comparing the relative priorities of new and in-flight projects can be even more […]

12 March 2015 2

Project Management in IS Applications FAQ Part 1 – Tools and Metrics

In my role as Head of Project Services I’m often asked about what tools and approaches we use for project management in IS Applications. These questions have become more frequent since I became Chair of the UCISA Project and Change Management Group in 2014 see https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/groups/pcmg.aspx. This is the first of an occasional series of […]

10 March 2015 0

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