This is obvious, yes? If we do work for a customer, we charge them for it. Ok, so the customer would rather get work done for free. It helps their bottom line after all, doesn’t it? Maybe not.
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September 29, 2011 Bruce Benson
Cost
My job was to evaluate how well our government projects were doing. The projects were expected to be using the prescribed latests and greatest project management tools and development technologies to help ensure they were successful. Here is how we finally achieved an "A" in our project management.
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September 23, 2011 Bruce Benson
Communication
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Project management is often about getting people to do the things we need them to do. Here is how we got people to better follow policy by improving how we communicated and how we can apply this to managing projects.
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September 12, 2011 Bruce Benson
Communication
Too many perfectly good methodologies and techniques have regressed over time because we didn’t make wise choices in trying to perfect them.
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September 7, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
We know everything we need to know (or at least enough), and if we just apply it, we will be successful, even without fancy new project management tools.
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September 5, 2011 Bruce Benson
Training
The problem was that we never knew where to start or what to work on first. This was the source of many arguments and many stops and starts in improvement projects. Now, we knew.
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September 2, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
