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What makes a good CV?
Tuesday February 21st, 2012
CV’s are extremely important for making a good first impression. Without a good CV, job prospects will be limited and it will be very rare that you are invited to the next stage of the recruitment process. It is very easy to distinguish between a good CV that somebody will be interested in, and a bad CV that will most probably be put to the back of the pile.
Data Migration Reconciliation
Tuesday February 14th, 2012
Reconciliation is what the business uses or businesses uses to determine if the data has been migrated correctly. The data migration reconciliation becomes what will be used for the final decision to go ahead with the data migration into production therefore it is important to include meaningful data items in the final data migration reconciliation.
Data Migration Reconciliation Planning
Tuesday February 7th, 2012
Reconciliation is what businesses use to determine if the data has been migrated correctly. It is all too easy to delay, especially when you have data that is not loading 100% of the records each and every time. Here are a few tips and tricks for data migration reconciliation.
Using a best of breeds approach for Data Migration
Tuesday January 31st, 2012
Data Migration can be the most difficult part of a project if you haven’t done the planning up front. There are a significant number of pitfalls when embarking on a data migration project.
Signing off the Data Mapping on a Data Migration project
Monday January 23rd, 2012
Data Migration is a challenging project because interacting with the business at the right level can be complex because the business sometimes feels that reviewing each data item is ‘too complicated’, ‘self-explanatory’ or ‘a waste of time’.
Project Management Pitfalls
Sunday January 15th, 2012
Project Management Pitfalls have been discussed over the last nine blog posts. Here we summarise the project management pitfalls all together in one post.
Why Insurance Projects Fail Top Tips from JMR Consulting
Sunday January 8th, 2012
It is a good idea to handle the project sign-off as if you are preparing for a day in court. Make sure that you get real signatures and real paper from each stakeholder and from your project champion.
JMR Consulting UK Ltd announces new MD
Thursday January 5th, 2012
2011 was a busy year for JMR Consulting UK. We have continued our consulting work in assisting companies to develop and put in place the processes required to meet the requirements of the Solvency II directive, provided a project review for a large migration project with a budget of £75 million as well as provided consulting and assistance with project management, business analysis and application development.
Why Insurance Projects Fail Top Tips from JMR Consulting
Monday January 2nd, 2012
A pilot phase is simply a test or a trial. It is the validation that the planned system works as intended and that it is set up in a way that properly supports your processes and is aimed to answer some basic questions about the proposed system
Why Insurance Projects Fail Top Tips from JMR Consulting
Wednesday December 28th, 2011
What is scope creep on IT insurance Projects? Scope Creep on IT projects refers to uncontrolled changes or continuous growth in a project’s scope.
Why Insurance Projects Fail Top Tips from JMR Consulting
Monday December 19th, 2011
A good project manager needs to be very hands on and focus on some of the smaller things. As one of my best project management mentors once said to me “It’s not the big things that make a difference but making sure all the little things get done”
Why Insurance Projects Fail Top Tips from JMR Consulting
Sunday December 11th, 2011
Making assumptions can be a very dangerous thing and no more so on projects. So don’t assume anything about your project. Walk through the project step by step with your entire team, communicate each step, and get sign-off on each one.
Why Insurance Projects Fail – Top Tips from JMR Consulting
Sunday December 4th, 2011
Today we are going to discuss Project Manager Pitfall #4 and discuss why the Project Manager has to be the Alpha Male or Female on the project team
Why Insurance Projects Fail – Top Tips
Monday November 28th, 2011
IT is the main channel to deliver business and technical change and businesses have projects that need to get done and if you’re in IT, you’re expected to do them.
Why Insurance Projects Fail – Top Tips
Sunday November 20th, 2011
So many projects fail to deliver the expected benefits that were planned at the outset – these can be technical or business benefits. Continue to read our posts on why so many projects fail.
JMR Consulting UK Ltd and IDIT Technologies Ltd attend the Future of General Insurance 2011 conference.
Monday November 7th, 2011
JMR Consulting UK Ltd and our technology partner IDIT Technologies Ltd attended The Future of General Insurance Conference in London
Why Insurance Projects Fail – Top Tips
Monday October 31st, 2011
Top Nine tips to avoid insurance project failure. Here we discuss tip number one – how to avoid project scheduling failure.
Project Management Lessons from the Rugby World Cup Champions 2011
Sunday October 23rd, 2011
Careful project planning, project management and project execution has been critical to the All Blacks success in completing their project successfully and winning the Rugby World Cup in 2011.
Project Management Lessons from the French Rugby Team success at the Rugby World Cup
Wednesday October 19th, 2011
Project Management lessons from the success of the French Rugby team in making this Rugby World Cup Final and the 80/20 rule with a sprinkle of luck.
Project Management Lessons from the England Rugby Team exit from the Rugby World Cup
Sunday October 9th, 2011
Project Management Lessons from the early exit of the England Rugby team from the Rugby World Cup 2011