Project failure and Now to avoid it

The title is a mistype, but I like it – urgency is often missing in projects, and we all know the sooner you tackle a problem, the sooner it’s resolved and the less it costs.

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Pelicam Continue To Drive Assurance

An update on Pelicam activities.

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Can New Graduates Make Effective Project Managers?

As a company that focuses on project assurance, Pelicam only recruit seasoned project managers - providing pragmatic, expert analysis and direction, using an 'invitation only' method to guarantee quality. But we were recently asked the question - “What would you look for when recruiting a 20-something project manager?”

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Competent at Competency

Many of us have responsibility for the delivery of projects. Many of us have responsibility for the people who deliver these same projects. You may have a good view of an individual’s strengths due to previous dealings, be that communication skills, leadership qualities or technical ability. Instinctively we recognise who the most capable project managers are and, not surprisingly, tend to farm the more difficult, or most important projects to them. Whilst this cherry picking is inevitable, how should we manage our portfolio of projects people in a more holistic manner and raise the game for all?

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Insights from Silicon Valley...cloud computing, the ubiquitous mobile, social networking, video, winners and losers?

I recently spent a week in Silicon Valley, California - visiting some leading and potentially bleeding edge technology providers. Accompanied by fifteen UK based COOs, CIOs and CTOs it gave us the opportunity to identify new trends in the technology marketplace, the impact for us as business consumers, and insights to the challenges we may soon face. We visited a mix of large scale suppliers and some start-up companies, all recommended to us by a group of friendly valley-based venture capitalists.

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