It only takes one key item to make a day successful. Often for me it is a well written e-mail that outlines a problem and drives a set of actions. As busy as the rest of the day may be, this one item makes the day a success and often, if it was insightful enough, makes days or weeks successful.
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August 31, 2010 Bruce Benson
Time Management
I had a job interview for VP of Development. The interviewing VP with a long history in the industry asked me a simple question: Did I think software development was a repeatable process? I said yes. I won't describe the ensuing discussion except to say I didn't get the job. We didn't even get to talk about project management tools!
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August 23, 2010 Bruce Benson
Planning
That’s the ticket. Let’s get a great project management tool that will help us get everything done faster. We’ll complete all our projects quicker and finally deliver more of them on time! Not so fast young Jedi apprentice ....
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August 17, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
As a project manager we have our own project and often have to fight to keep resources and schedules running right. So what do we do when that other project manger comes requesting our resources? Do everything we can to help them out.
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August 9, 2010 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
Just about every organization has projects or pockets of people doing exceptional work - with or without sophisticated project management tools. Here is one approach that has helped ensure we didn't squash these efforts as we further improved project management in the organization.
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August 3, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
