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(WARNING: TONGUE-IN-CHEEK BLOG AHEAD) There’s a dangerous new trend creeping into IT project and change portfolios: organisations quietly swapping contractors and permanent headcount for Project Management as a Service (PMaaS). Terrible idea. PMaaS is suspiciously good at saving money, reducing stress and getting projects delivered on time and within budget, and frankly, where’s the fun in that? To protect the long-standing tradition of over-spending on under-delivering projects, here are seven solid reasons not to resource using PMaaS. (If you recognise your organisation in any of these, congratulations, like the majority you’re doing waste like a pro!!!!) SEVEN SOLID REASONS NOT TO RESOURCE USING PMAAS.

MoSCoW Prioritization: Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, Won’t Have – Getting It Right From The Start.... Our latest blog talks about one of the Pm basics, but like any good technique, it’s simple to understand but requires discipline to apply well. And that discipline? That’s what separates projects that struggle from projects that succeed.

Project Management Burnout: When Your Gantt Chart Starts Looking Like a Cry for Help

You’ve got an IT project. Maybe it’s a telephony upgrade, a data centre migration, or one of those digital transformation initiatives that’s been “starting next quarter” for the past three quarters. The question is: who’s going to manage it?

THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT SQUEEZE: Delivery challenges are clear: rising complexity, static budgets, talent shortages, tighter governance, and relentless scrutiny over ROI … basically it’s never been harder to be an IT Project Manager.

When Project Managers Become Project Messengers “I’m not a carrier pigeon!!!” These are words that you don’t expect to hear from a Project Manager. We laugh about it now, but when exasperated PM Marcus blurted this out after leaving a meeting, it was a cry for help.