Page 10 - Straight Talk On Project Management IV

uncertain times – all remotely. While the world was adjusting to WFH, we realised that we could
WFA - work from anywhere.

Any geographical limitations or restrictions that we might have had before, we realised, were self-
imposed. It was just easier, we thought, to send the guy in Hull to manage the project in Hull, easier
to send the London BA to deliver data driven recommendations to the stakeholders of the project in
the capital.

That Project Manager in Hull, it dawned on us, could be deployed on a project in Hackney; that
London based Business Analyst could as easily measure business value on a project in Doncaster as
she could in Dartford.

The thing is, we’d always been able to do this, in fact, we always did do this. Just not as a matter of
routine.

Necessity is the mother of re-invention

Traditionally, you got your local talent! Now, let’s be clear, your local talent would be awesome, and
they’d deliver exactly what was promised, results would be totally consistent with your project
needs. What if there was someone even better on our radar though, they were two hundred miles
away, but could work remotely – would we have recommended them for you? Probably not – client
feedback told us you’d prefer to deal face to face, in person – so, more often than not, the local
talent it was.

Then restrictions were placed on travel. That IT Project in Hull still needed the PM, the London
project still needed a BA, but non-essential workers were told to work from home.

Rather than feel limited – at Stonessed we actually felt free.

As we moved to a Remote Access Project Management model, suddenly we could deploy the
project talent two hundred miles down the road. Remember, we always could and often did but
being ‘forced to’ to almost exclusively operate remotely opened up a universe of possibility that
we found exciting. We were geared up and ready for this!

Remote Control

Stoneseed offer a full range of project services including PMO, Project Management and Business
Analysis, and this expertise is also available on demand remotely, offering rapid response resources.
You can align resources as and when you need it, on a cost effective, full-time or part-time basis. We
flex to support your project needs – with no geographical limitation.

With low cost set up, resources can be deployed to support just one project, multiple projects or a
programme of projects in any geographical location. Furthermore, Stoneseed’s b resource on-
demand model allows you to dial up and down IT project resources in sync with your delivery needs.
In other words, you have even more control over your costs - at a time when this matters more
than ever.

The ability to work ‘out of region’ means that the VERY best available talent, with experience of
working across all sorts of industries or projects, can be deployed to meet your project
requirements, and now an even more varied range of experience can be flexed across a wider
geographical area.