Projects need owners not sponsors

Get the right names on IT Project Title Deeds

IT people can be difficult to understand at the best of times, especially when describing our beloved technology. But it’s even more confusing for everyone when we deliberately avoid using plain language for non-technical aspects of project management.

For example we still persist with the inconvenient conspiracy that allows IT projects to have highly visible ‘Sponsors’ but invisible or READ MORE

Turnround

Turnaround

If you are faced with serious business problems, you will need someone who can be trusted to quickly assimilate a complex situation, determine the most appropriate solution and then make a timely and effective intervention.

Here is a flavour of some of the situations I have successfully dealt with:

struggling programmes dead-locked projects under-performing teams and departments. READ MORE

world's largest iT project - more poison pills for Health Service?

The UK Chancellor is expected to massively scale back the world’s largest IT project, in a desperate effort to save money.

picture credit: Mike Rawlins

For the past five years, I have believed that the NPfIT has been the poster child for the Trillion Dollar Bonfire – as a poorly conceived, massively flawed and consequently expensive programme.

Why do READ MORE