I’ve seen it happen more times than I care to count in my little world of IT consulting. A business owner or a C-suite executive invests heavily in setting up a Project Management Office (PMO), expecting it to be the “magic wand” that finally brings order to the chaos....
Welcome back to PROJECT PULSE, where we explore what it really means to be an IT Project Manager in an era where artificial intelligence isn’t just a buzzword: it’s becoming part of our daily toolkit. If you’ve been following along, you know we’re not here to replace the human...
Let me tell you something I’ve seen more times than I’d like to admit: a company decides it’s time to migrate their data center. The IT director assures the C-suite it’ll be “smooth sailing.” Fast forward three months, and they’re dealing with 48 hours of unplanned downtime, angry customers,...
I’ll be honest with you: I’ve seen more IT projects crash and burn because of rigid thinking than because of technical problems. You know the type: the project manager who swears by “the process,” refuses to deviate from the plan, and treats the project timeline like it’s carved in...
I’ll be honest with you, when I first started in project management, I thought success lived inside a perfectly color-coded Gantt chart. If every task had a clear owner, if dependencies were mapped out like a flowchart masterpiece, if the budget stayed green and the timeline stayed tight, we’d...
I get this question all the time from business leaders who are standing at a crossroads: “Should we hire someone full-time or bring in a consultant?” And honestly? I get it. On the surface, it feels like hiring internally is the “safer” bet, someone who’s part of the team,...
I’ve seen it happen more times than I can count: a technically brilliant IT project that fails spectacularly, not because of bad code or poor infrastructure, but because the team just didn’t gel. You can have the best developers, the sharpest analysts, and state-of-the-art tools, but if your people...
When it comes to Project Management, meetings and follow ups are constantly necessary to assure a smooth communication, guarantee collaboration, and reach goals. But there are different types of meetings depending on multiple factors such as time, urgency, objectives, and so on. As we know, time is a valuable...
By Patrick Young – Able USA …… Reopening a business during a pandemic comes with many challenges, not the least of which is figuring out how to keep customers and employees safe. If you’ve already tackled that hurdle, you also have to face the prospect of staying open and...
A project meeting is a regular event where people involved in a project gather to report on progress, discuss issues, approve or reject ideas, and solve problems; its purpose is to increase communication and accelerate the project’s progress to optimize time. Taking that into consideration, project meetings are a...