I simply said “hey, I got a great idea, let’s do X!” Everyone got excited and we finally had an effective technique. Where did I find this new technique?
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January 30, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
At such an inauspicious moment, with management dead set against the idea, it surely would have seemed foolhardy to continue designing computer operating systems.
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January 23, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Yet study after study, analyst after analyst, say that developers are making the same mistakes they made in 2000. That they made in 1990. And earlier.
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January 19, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Should we simply follow the crowd until we found something that suggests another course of action?
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January 17, 2012 Bruce Benson
Planning
What happens if we are not using a method? What do we call it then? I call it management by intuition. Others call it management by experience. Does this work?
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January 11, 2012 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
One of the hard steps in getting to truly useful project management metrics is to get to a point where the metric tells us something useful and we believe it.
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January 9, 2012 Bruce Benson
Metrics
In speaking with project managers, methodology masters and tool providers, it seems the key to successful technology adoption is to change the corporate culture.
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January 5, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Risk Management
Projects that consistently complete on time? Gee, we can’t do that. No way ... What? We can?
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January 3, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
