Category: Cost Savings

  • Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb

    Factfulness Part Two – Rules of Thumb

    Our first article explored Rosling’s Dramatic Instincts—the biases that lead CIOs and Project Managers to overreact to crises, vendor hype, and boardroom pressure. This article explores the very humans tendency to take a ‘good enough’ approach to problem solving. “Heuristics” is the official name, but it is also known as the ‘Rules of Thumb’. Are…

  • Factfulness Part One – Our Dramatic Instincts

    Factfulness Part One – Our Dramatic Instincts

    Humans have a tendency to dramatise. Can we as IT professionals — from the CIO to the project manager to the IT technician — overcome these dramatic instincts?

  • 46 ways to save costs and add value as an IT program manager

    46 ways to save costs and add value as an IT program manager

    I am often asked for guidance on costs overruns — and not necessarily at theend of projects. Often projects heading south are in the middle of their execution phase whenthe program manager or project manager “does the right thing” and calls it out. But with customers demanding ever-tighter schedules and expandingscope, controlling and reducing costs…