Page 9 - Straight Talk On Project Management IV

WFA is the new WFH and it is unleashing huge IT project potential

Every cloud has a silver lining, they say. Did you
discover that working from home turned out to be just
that? Few I speak to are keen to return to the old ways
of schlepping into town to grind out a nine to five in
the office, when you can nail the working day in your
pyjamas!

Have you also discovered that if you can work from
home – you can work from anywhere?

Literally – anywhere!

Businesses have cottoned on! Prior to the latest
lockdown, you could hire a hotel room as an office for
the day (from city centres to coastal villages, at costs
ranging from £35 to £1,500 - some even let you use the gym and pool, even offering free printing
and hot drinks). Meanwhile, dozens of pubs across the country had started to offer a new "pub
desk" service (a tenner can get you a table by a plug socket, wi-fi, lunch and unlimited tea and
coffee). we expect this to happen again as restrictions ease.

If you can work anywhere you manage a project from anywhere

Stoneseed has always been your one stop shop for all your IT Project resourcing challenges.

Our team have been involved in countless projects and all come from an infrastructure or digital
application background, and we have a team of IT technical staff and advisors. Also, our years of
experience in the Project Management as a Service PMaaS gave us an enviable contact book of
talent: you needed a Project Manager for your IT Project in Hull- we had one; if you needed a
Business Analyst in London - no problem. Wherever you are, whatever your project needs –
Stoneseed had the solution.

Then lockdown happened. Like most businesses we had to rethink slightly. It was all well and good
having project resources “on tap” everywhere but it didn’t matter that they were in the same town,
city or county if they weren’t allowed to travel.

As non-essential travel became prohibited, as the PM announced that people who could, should
work from home, many IT Projects felt resourcing pressures.

Also, like most businesses, a silver lining presented itself. What we originally saw as a challenge
would open up a great opportunity for us and our clients – Remote Access Project Management.

The silver lining that was hiding in plain sight

At Stoneseed, we were already experts in Remote Access Project Management, even before it
became a necessity, so the solution was already in our portfolio of services.

We realised that Stoneseed could help ramp up, kickstart or support your IT Project Delivery, we
could help cover staffing shortfalls and maintain project resource levels in these critical but