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Defect Reports Are Your Best Friend!

This post is adapted from an e-mail I had sent to a CEO who was looking for project management tools to help deliver his products when promised. In the past his organization had successfully been able to know precisely where their product readiness stood. Trending defects will work well in managing projects of all types.

May 29, 2009 Bruce Benson Reporting, Schedule

Get The Project Management Schedule Right!

Estimating a schedule is one of the most critical things we will do so let's see if we can get it right.

May 22, 2009 Bruce Benson Reporting, Schedule

If Nothing Else, Honesty Is Just More Efficient

Honesty in project management reporting is just more efficient. Just report the status of a project as it is. If things are late, it will show things as late. If things are confused, it will show things as confused. Spending valuable time making things look better on slides than it does in reality is not productive.

May 15, 2009 Bruce Benson Communication, Reporting, Schedule

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