In this podcast, Chris Don speaks with Darren Wray (CEO of Fifth Step) about how to avoid project management failures and some practical and actionable advice on what to do if your organisation finds itself in a project failure situation.
The need for project managers has never been greater. As projects get larger and more complex it is imperative that projects and programmes are overseen by appropriately qualified and experienced people. Today there are different types of role that are essentially types of project manager. My blog here applies to all of them so no matter if your title is project manager or scrum master, or if you are using agile, waterfall, lean, six sigma, Kanban or one of the myriad of project methodologies available to modern project managers these principles still apply.
For many organisations, February will be lining up to be a busy month. Annual budgets that were approved in December or January are now starting to become available, so what should CIOs and Heads of Change be looking at to make sure that new projects are getting started as quickly as possible?
PRESS RELEASE London, 12th February2018 – Cyber liabilities, new ways of working and today’s complex technology landscape are creating challenges that CIOs and their Boards are failing to address due to a lack of practical expertise in IT leadership, says Fifth Step CEO Darren Wray.
In this podcast, Darren Wray (CEO of Fifth Step) and Chris Don talk about the hot topic of mergers and acquisitions (often called M&A) and why it is important to have a framework approach to M&A no matter if you are on the buy or sell side.
In this blog posting Fifth Step Project Manager Naimisha Nayee outlines her view why face to face meetings can ensure greater engagement, clarify meaning and drive participation
This podcast Darren Wray (CEO of Fifth Step) and Chris Don talk about the increasing need within businesses of all type for strategic change.
Change management is well recognised by most organisations as something that they need to do. A recent survey by audit firm KPMG outlines the challenges facing businesses and how some are able to step up whilst others are still struggling to do so, a fact that is slowing business agility and reducing the effectiveness of business change.
In this podcast Darren Wray (CEO of Fifth Step) is interviewed by Chris Don about Project Change, and how to recognise that your project teams are overloaded.
Fifth Step attended a pre-Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous briefing during which a number of topics and themes were raised that touch on areas of interest to our clients. The first speaker at the conference, for example, outlined the challenge of change and the importance of managing disruption in the 21st Century as being a critical business asset.