How IT Consulting Firms Implement Projects Successfully: Part 2 of 2
Leadership positions such as IT consultants, IT project managers, directors of IT organizations, or CIOs, should establish a standard way in which your IT organization engages with stakeholders as a key to success.
How IT Consulting Firms Implement Projects Successfully: Part 1 of 2
How can I deliver on projects more successfully, more consistently, and at a higher level of quality? Today, we start the first in a series answering this question with practical tools and tips that you can implement in your own processes, using our IT consulting firms’ methodologies as an example.
Selecting The Right Talent For Your IT Projects: Part 5 of 5
Taking the time upfront to select the right team for your IT project that matches both the technical skills required by the project and the personality needs that fit with the project and the cultural needs of your organization goes a long ways into developing a highly successful project.
Selecting The Right Talent For Your IT Projects: Part 4 of 5
“Trust, but verify.”
Using assessments to verify the skills of every individual that you’re looking to include in your IT project team is as important as the due diligence you’d conduct when selecting new hardware or software. In this video, we’ll look at three categories of assessments that we use to evaluate talent.
Selecting the Right Talent for your IT Project: Part Three
When working with IT Project Managers and portfolio leaders and our clients, we oftentimes get requests for additional IT staff and resources. So we took a page out of an HR playbook and developed a requisition form based on HR best practices. A requisition form is a great tool to use in selecting the right talent for your IT Project.
Selecting the Right Talent for Your IT Project: Part Two
A project charter is a great tool to use that allows you to bring in your project sponsor and/or other key stakeholders to find the business case for the IT project. This tool excels at moving the IT project ball down the field by defining the project and the resources that you require.
Selecting The Right Talent For Your IT Project
When considering a new IT project, it’s critical to the project’s success to select the right team to execute the strategy, design, and implementation. Many of our clients, before finding us, discover that they’ve either selected a team that is not specialized enough for their needs, or they are not focused on what’s best for the project and the organization on the whole. At Darby Consulting, we help you select the team that is not too hot, not too cold, but just right for your technology project’s needs.
The Difference Between IT Consulting and IT Staffing
Contracting with a traditional IT staffing agency is often not enough to meet the customized demands of most IT projects. If you’ve had a lackluster experience with an IT staffing agency – you’re not alone. Dealing with inexperienced temporary hires creates frustration, project delays, and ultimately adds to the project’s bottom line. These frustrations are one of the reasons why our clients come to Darby Consulting. They’ve had to learn the hard way about the difference between staffing an IT department with temporary hires and providing highly-trained, often highly-specialized consultants to take charge and lead IT projects to success.
Outsourcing IT Staff Can Save Your Company Millions
If you’re considering a large IT project, you’ve likely considered the extra burden that will be placed on your existing IT staff and if it makes more sense to temporarily outsource additional staff for the duration of the project. For some projects, outsourcing IT staff is not only smart, but can save your company millions.
