Using Hard Facts To Reduce Honesty Buffers
Reducing the project management tool “honesty buffers” is a way to rapidly improve the organization. Much of what I’ve talked about assumed that we really did know what was going on, and it was more a matter of just delivering the facts than figuring out what the facts are. When we don’t yet know the facts, but must report or update senior management, hard facts are often readily available such that we can supply something more concrete than “we don’t know yet.”
Nine Ways To Eliminate Honesty Buffers
Eliminating “Honesty Buffers” helps to confront your organizational project management bad habits and hence improve your productivity and quality. Here are nine techniques I’ve used to successfully reduce the “Honesty Buffers.”
In Eliminate Your Project Management Honesty Buffers I talk about how you can apply lean techniques from the The Toyota Way to eliminate the “Honesty [...]
