This is bad, right? Only about half the tasks scheduled get accomplished in the required week. As a project manager I thought “great, I can work with this!” Huh? Why is that?
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October 31, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
We had the premier project for the organization and we were determined to finally get a product out on-time and with good quality. We did it, and in doing so highlighted how many of our rules were not really helping us to complete a quality project.
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October 28, 2011 Bruce Benson
Quality
Managers spend all their time with their “best” folks and let their “under-performers” just kind of exist. This may be misguided if we want to significantly improve our performance.
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October 24, 2011 Bruce Benson
Team Management
Lack of sufficient sleep may compromise the efficacy of typical dietary interventions for weight loss and related metabolic risk reduction. What does this have to do with project management? Everything!
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October 21, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Project management is often about learning to communicate in another language. I’m not talking about a national language, but instead the language of the industry or domain that we are working in.
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October 19, 2011 Bruce Benson
Communication
A metric is a project management tool that captures an essential aspect of the project or organization and provides insight, allowing us to make rapid and accurate project management decisions. Here are five secrets for creating successful project management metrics.
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October 17, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
We took the official plan document and turned it into a real plan that we used everyday. This was different from the classic plan that was created to meet a checklist requirement. Here is how we made the change and how moving to a real plan can often confuse folks and how we overcame this normal confusion.
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October 12, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
“More and more,” Carlson says, “innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly and dumb. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.”
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October 10, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
