Home »
Archive by category "Schedule"
The B-21’s core design initiative has been to use mature and semi-mature components and subsystems not only to lower risk and to decrease development time and costs, but also to better ensure support for the aircraft over time. Although many look to history to predict...
Continue reading »
March 17, 2018 Bruce Benson
Schedule
No Comment
In the runup to the planned debut of the latest MacBook Pro, Apple’s home computer division had a bit of a meltdown. Enhanced battery life was supposed to be one of the big selling points for the new version of the company’s main laptop, with...
Continue reading »
February 3, 2017 Bruce Benson
Schedule
No Comment
Samsung declined to comment on whether it moved up the Note 7 launch to beat Apple’s. “Timing of any new mobile product launch is determined by the mobile business division based on the proper completion of the development process and the readiness of the product...
Continue reading »
October 27, 2016 Bruce Benson
Schedule
No Comment
According to Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, megaprojects in the past 70 years have consistently come in over budget while delivering less than half of their promised monetary benefit. … His research on megaprojects has been cited by both backers and critics of the tunnel. Nine...
Continue reading »
April 14, 2015 Bruce Benson
Schedule
No Comment
Two years ago, Electronic Arts, the second-largest U.S. video game company, ran on promises. … Several of EA’s biggest 2013 releases, including entries in its SimCity and Battlefield franchises, were so bug-ridden on release that they crashed game servers and were essentially unplayable for days...
Continue reading »
March 24, 2015 Bruce Benson
Schedule
No Comment
If you kept your money in the stock market this summer, you're likely feeling pretty smart now.
Continue reading »
December 30, 2014 Bruce Benson
Planning, Schedule
No Comment
The group estimated it would take two years to get done. Yet 40% of comparable projects failed, and for the teams that did finish, it took seven years.
Continue reading »
January 13, 2014 Bruce Benson
Schedule
1 Comment
The enormous increase in effort with very short schedules is due to much of the work on the project morphing into wasteful activity called optional chaos.
Continue reading »
August 9, 2011 Bruce Benson
Schedule
3 Comments
The notion that an inadequate project management schedule is often the root cause of other problems in the project generated some insightful responses. While insightful, they also illustrate what I consider to be the typical misconceptions we have about how project problems are just too complex to ever be "simply the schedule."
Continue reading »
October 27, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
2 Comments
I am a big advocate of getting the project management tool schedule right for a project. While this seems obvious, 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.
Continue reading »
October 26, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
15 Comments
While the realistic project management schedule is still a challenge, more productivity improvements happen with realistic schedules because people have the time to innovate and improve how they do their work. This is in contrast to the compressed schedule where there is insufficient time to just get the core tasks done which in turn discourages taking the time to try new things that could improve productivity.
Continue reading »
September 16, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
3 Comments
We know that throwing additional resources at an already late project rarely makes the project run on time. Often it only makes it run later. Similarly, going with an aggressive schedule with an early date for the purpose of actually hitting a later date is equally counterproductive.
Continue reading »
May 24, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
12 Comments
We've seen project management tool reports where the team bragged "and we finished early!" Kind of like it was a badge of honor or something. Here are three good reasons we've found for not wanting to finish a project early.
Continue reading »
May 3, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
2 Comments
The bottom line is that you can know if your project management tool estimating is accurate. More to the point, estimating in a project can be verifiably accurate.
Continue reading »
December 21, 2009 Bruce Benson
Schedule
9 Comments
Making a real change is rarely easy. A real change, one that goes to the heart of a fundamental problem, is usually very difficult, but doable.
Continue reading »
October 11, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
1 Comment