It Must Be Something Other Than The Project Management Schedule
The typical misconception is that project problems are just too complex to ever be "simply the schedule."
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It’s The Project Management Schedule, Stupid
What is not often as obvious is that a lot of the problems seen in a project can often be root caused back to an inadequate schedule estimate.
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Project Management Metrics Madness? Don’t Do It!
It happened pretty regularly. To make some functionally work on the project we needed something else that we overlooked. No problem. We make the change -- tag it as a missed requirement in our project management tool -- and approve it. A couple of weeks later the additional functionality is completed and gets submitted to be put into the product. It is submitted as a “new requirement.” It shows up as scope creep. I called up the project manager and explain they tagged it incorrectly. Please change it to a missed requirement. “Oh no!”, she practically yells, “It is a new requirement!
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Project Management is Simple But Not Obvious
I spend a lot of time talking about falling back and using simple project management tools when projects are not going as well as expected. Most management, project or otherwise, I always considered pretty simple. Simple doesn't mean easy to do. Often, it is very hard but the right thing to do.
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Are Project Management Costs Really The Problem?
I’ve rarely experienced a project that was on time where anyone complained about it being too costly.
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