If you’re preparing to hire IT project management consultant support for a complex initiative, don’t stop at asking about experience, rates, or methodology. Ask a more important question: Will this consultant strengthen our team, or become the only person who knows how to move the work forward? The relationship...
Managing complex IT projects can feel like trying to navigate a city while its roads are being rebuilt. New dependencies appear, priorities shift, and stakeholders bring different expectations to the table. Complexity is real, but it doesn’t have to derail the work. What matters is how leaders and teams...
I’ve been in the IT consulting world for a long time, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that we don’t talk enough about the “feels.” We talk about KPIs, we talk about sprint velocities, and we definitely talk about ROI. But what happens when a project: one...
Category: Blog > English I’ve sat across the table from hundreds of IT Project Managers over the years. Many of them come armed with a “alphabet soup” of credentials following their names: PMP, PRINCE2, ITIL, CSM: you name it, they’ve earned it. And don’t get me wrong, those certifications...
Category: Blog > English I get emails about everything: from technical debt that’s spiraling out of control to stakeholders who change their minds more often than they change their socks. But if I’m being honest, most of the “failing” projects I see across my desk at Lurdez Consulting Group...
I hear it all the time in my line of work. A frantic email arrives, or a Zoom call starts with a heavy sigh: “Penny, we switched to Agile six months ago, and honestly? Everything is a mess. The deadlines are still slipping, the team is burned out, and...
I must admit that I enjoy every busy, varied, and unpredictable day in the world of IT consulting. There is something truly exhilarating about the high-stakes environment of a major infrastructure shift. But if I’m being honest, and I always try to be, I get emails about everything, and...
I must admit that I enjoy every busy, varied, and unpredictable day. Usually, my morning starts with the “sunny side up” version of my little world, a cup of coffee, a quick check of the news, and a deep breath before diving into the inbox. But lately, I get...
Happy Friday, everyone! Can you believe it’s already May 1st? Here in the Chicago area, the sun is finally making a more permanent appearance, and it feels like the perfect time to take a breath and look back at what was an incredibly busy, insightful, and, if I’m being...
I’ve sat in more boardrooms than I can count where the loudest person in the room was considered the "natural leader." You know the type: the one who dominates the conversation, interrupts to make a point, and treats every status update like a stump speech. For a long time,...