Project Accelerator

IT project teams often avoid hard truths until it’s too late. Discover how PMaaS creates space for honest diagnosis and course correction. When You’re Inside the Jar, You Can’t Read the Label I love this saying. It’s one of those lines that sounds simple, throwaway even, until you sit and ponder it for a minute. Of course, it’s nothing to do with jars and labels.

Struggling to resource IT projects? Learn when your projects need a dedicated PMO specialist versus a skilled generalist — and how to decide.Do Your IT Projects Need a PMO Specialist, or a Really Good Generalist? Now, there’s a question worth asking before you write the job spec! Stoneseed were at the House of PMO conference day in London in June, and specialist vs generalist was a recurring theme with visitors to our stand. Actually, it comes up in many conversations with clients too.

Google I/O just changed search as we knew it. But the real lesson is one every IT project manager recognises — what happens when “can we?” replaces “should we?” Google has quietly (and then all at once) blown up the search engine as we knew it. At its annual Google I/O developer conference in California, the company unveiled what it calls an “Intelligent Search Box”: a Gemini-powered overhaul that replaces the familiar “ten blue links” with something far more self-contained.

When PMO as a Service Makes Sense (And When It Doesn’t): Discover what it is, what it isn’t, and if you actually need it. A project rarely announces that it’s in trouble. Not loudly, anyway. There’s no “Breaking News” ticker-tape banner, fanfare or fuss. What happens first tends to be much quieter: Decisions sit a bit longer than they should. Nobody’s quite sure who owns what. The status reports look fine but the conversations in the corridors don’t match.

Extreme heat setbacks railways for the same reason unexpected setbacks break IT projects: they’re built for normal. Here’s how PMaaS builds in the flex to cope. It happens every time. Proper hot weather arrives and everything falls apart around us. On the railways, for instance, the rails are at risk of buckling, trains can’t run at full speed if they run at all, and some rail operators are advising passengers not to travel.

For many organisations, search engine optimisation still sits firmly within the marketing department. It is often viewed as a specialist activity concerned with keywords, website rankings, technical website issues, speed performance and content strategy.

Most organisations come to PMaaS for the capacity. The ones who get the most from it treat it as a genuine working partnership. Here’s what that really looks like. We’re noticing a pattern when organisations first come to us. They’ve got too many projects, not enough people, and a leadership team that’s spending so much time buried in delivery that nobody’s actually steering the ship. The answer, they’ve decided, is to outsource the project management.

An imaginary IT Project Director is dropping some truths about IT Project Management right now – and readers are LOVING it. (see readers comment at the bottom) Chapter One: Helen’s Mad Idea To paraphrase my colleague Helen: We should probably start by admitting whose fault this is.

Business Analysis as a Service (BAaaS) isn’t a luxury , it’s a delivery mechanism. Stoneseed now offers BAaaS as a dedicated service. Here’s why your IT projects need it. Picture the ideal IT project team: a Project Manager, a full complement of skilled people, and a Business Analyst embedded from day one. IT project nirvana. The reality? Budgets are tight, headcount is scrutinised, and the BA role is the one that tends to get cut , or quietly absorbed into someone else’s job description.

Scope creep, vanishing stakeholders, undead projects — the real villains every IT project manager faces. Discover seven enemies of delivery success and how PMaaS helps you defeat them. Was Darth Vader really just a frustrated project manager?