by Catherine Searle | Feb 24, 2020 | business coaching, Business Strategy, coaching, Leadership, Project Management
How do you bridge the gap between using SMEs or ‘Jack of all trades’? We know that within any business, operations/delivery, marketing and sales, and IT, are a few of the crucial functions of any company, but are they naturally aligned? Generally speaking...
by Daryl Searle | Feb 23, 2020 | Brexit, Business Strategy, Leadership, Project Management, transformation
Unless you have been cryogenically frozen and have only recently been successfully thawed you will know that the UK has now completed Brexit and as of 31st January 2020 is no longer officially part of the European Union, the question to answer is now “Is your...
by Daryl Searle | Mar 23, 2018 | CIO, Customer Experience, Digital, governance, portfolio, Project Management, transformation
“A game of two halves” Is normally an analogy synonymous with football. Manager’s are seen as the master tacticians, responsible for the team’s blueprint for success. How will they engineer a cup run or win the league? They recruit what they...
by Daryl Searle | Mar 19, 2018 | Agile, crowd testing, Customer Experience, governance, portfolio, Project Management, Testing, transformation
As organisations look to transform their business; through initiatives such as cloud adoption, customer centric delivery and commitment to aligning the IT and business worlds to a common goal, it is is no longer enough to treat these as a programme of work. Instead...
by Daryl Searle | Mar 5, 2018 | Agile, Digital, governance, Project Management, transformation
Traditionally, the business have called the shots and IT have been servants to the cause. Though there were many successful projects delivered in this way the change in the corporate machine, coupled with the rise of technology and efficient ways of working has led to...
by Daryl Searle | Dec 13, 2017 | Agile, governance, Project Management, Testing
Having worked over many years on various sized projects, similarities can be drawn irrespective of who runs the project, what the business priority is and how much budget is available. Wherever you go you are likely to face the same issues or anti-patterns when it...
