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Five Ways Your Legacy Systems Are Holding You Back
If you’re hanging onto legacy systems, chances are you’re doing your business a great disservice. Notoriously inflexible, legacy systems are a major obstacle for growth. They prevent your business...
Why Discovery is Critical for Successful IT Migration
An IT infrastructure migration is a large and complex undertaking, and most likely a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the people in your organisation. Whether you’re migrating your data centre,...
Don’t Ignore The Known Elephant – Managing Project Risk
In February 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, the then US Secretary of State for Defence, stated at a Defence Department briefing: ‘There are known knowns. There are things we know that we know. There are...
The Importance Of An IT Strategy
As a business owner, you have more important things than your technology to think about at this time of year, however you shouldn’t forget the important role that technology can play in helping you...
Why Does My Project Need A Sponsor
As a project manager it is up you to resolve any problems that confront your project and to simply make the project happen, and if you don’t, then you are an easy scapegoat to take the blame. This...
No One Plans For Their Project To Fail
All too often projects end up delayed or not completing – in other words, “They Fail”. They may be cancelled by a client or sponsor due to a change in business circumstances, a loss of funding, or...
Ready, Set, Go… Are Your People Ready?
This time of year is commonly used as time for getting ready – getting ready for that family vacation, getting the kids ready for the new school year, getting yourself ready for that overdue diet or...
Addressing The Challenges Of Large IT Projects
Regardless of the project methodology adopted for your project, there are numerous challenges faced whenever an organisation takes on a large IT project or program. In the case of business...
Manage the Risk or Manage the Issue?
Managing a risk is definitely more cost, time and resource effective than managing an issue but before we discuss how to manage risks, let’s make sure you know the difference between a risk and an...
The Choice Between Agile & Waterfall
Over the last 15-20 years, the increased use of “Agile” as a project management methodology has caused many companies to move away from the more traditional “Waterfall” methodology and as we head...
