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Remote Project Management and Governance: Building and Managing High-Performing Remote Teams
Remote Project Management and Governance: Building and Managing High-Performing Remote Teams

The Real Risk: Proximity Bias and the Informal Information Gap Most distributed team challenges develop quietly through proximity bias and the tendency for decisions and opportunities to concentrate around whoever is physically present or most available in real time. In distributed environments, proximity bias can appear in predictable ways. Remote team members learn about decisions…

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The COBOL Developer Cliff Is Not an IT Problem: It Is a Board Problem

Somewhere in your organization, a handful of people understand how your most important systems actually work. As experienced COBOL developers leave the workforce, fewer new developers are entering the field, in part because the language is no longer widely taught in universities. As a result, the institutional knowledge required to maintain these systems is becoming…

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The Missing Piece in COBOL Modernization Solutions: Independent Oversight

You finally made the call. The COBOL mainframe is getting modernized. You have signed a multi-year, eight-figure contract with a capable systems integrator, assembled a steering committee and kicked off with real momentum. Now answer one question honestly. Who in that room works for you, and only you? The systems integrator (SI) is excellent at…

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COBOL Modernization: Building the Business Case for Change

Every year, finance leaders approve an IT budget with a line item nobody enjoys defending: the cost of keeping decades-old core systems running. The plan is not to improve or extend the old systems; it is simply to keep them up and running. The biggest offender in legacy systems used by many of these businesses…

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Step Zero in Microsoft 365 Licensing — Making the Decision for Role-Based Licensing

Microsoft 365 licensing (M365 licensing) is not inherently complex. But making licensing decisions can appear daunting without a proper decision-making process. In many environments, licenses are assigned based on cost targets, historical choices or broad assumptions about roles. That’s where problems begin, leading to overspending or gaps in security and compliance. The reality is simpler:…

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Still Confused About Microsoft 365 Licensing? A Practical Microsoft Framework for 2026

In part one of this series on Microsoft 365 licensing, we introduced a structured approach to role-based licensing, helping organizations assess user needs, security requirements and compliance obligations before selecting Microsoft 365 licenses. With that foundation in place, we can now take a broader view and explore how these individual decisions fit into an overall…

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