I often like to say that you are your own best project management tool. What we do, day to day makes the difference. These are some of the lifehacks I use after six decades of life. My notion of a lifehack is a habit or...
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December 31, 2019 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Software projects today are getting more and more complex. Projects that used to take minutes to complete a full build now start with fetching from the repository and may require an hour or more to build.
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December 31, 2018 Bruce Benson
Training
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The shortage of developers is much the same. The answer to most companies’ developer shortages is likely to look within, and make those developers more productive.
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December 21, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
I just wanted to develop a rocket with a small team, and not 15,000 people like had been done in the past. I wanted to show you could do this with 200.
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December 15, 2018 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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We measured all types of individual work environments, and what we’ve found is that if you solve for design, noise, and access to people and resources, they perform equally, and one is essentially not better than the other.
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December 7, 2018 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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The system should be able to automatically approve them, freeing up people to focus on the more high-risk changes that do require more in-depth analysis and understanding before they can be approved.
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December 2, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Suddenly, it turns out there are many years of hard work behind Tesla’s overnight success.
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November 24, 2018 Bruce Benson
Innovation
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There is no way at this point to stop climate change. Pretty much every system is going to have to change. We're going to have to adapt to this.
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November 17, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Most organizations have fallen prey to a simple message — implement Agile as a series of ceremonies and everything gets better. Unfortunately, this is often not the case when the human-side of the equation is lost. By getting back to the basics of motivation and adaptive performance, you...
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November 7, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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“If you don’t find the solution, it’s because you didn’t see the real problem.” Renault CEO Carlos Ghosn shared leadership lessons
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October 31, 2018 Bruce Benson
Quality
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IT [Information Technology] use in the healthcare industry has experienced tremendous growth and attention since 2007. Yet concrete and credible evidence that HIT improves health outcomes remains inconclusive. Our investigation of New York State healthcare providers further indicates the healthcare industry may be experiencing an...
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October 27, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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While he won’t rule out further acquisitions, he says PSA doesn’t need to grow dramatically to be successful. “More than volumes, profitability is the most important element,” he says. “I prefer agility and efficiency to being the biggest car group.” Bloomberg Businessweek, September 3, 2018,...
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October 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
Cost
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It’s not fair. When we screw up, it’s fair, we have to fix it. But it feels less fair when we have to fix someone’s else’s problems.
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October 11, 2018 Bruce Benson
Quality
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In contrast to the flybys typical of GM executives, his first official visit to Rüsselsheim a year ago became a six-hour inspection tour as he took a deep dive into Opel’s operations, initiating part-by-part comparisons with Peugeot and Citroën. The review uncovered hard-to-justify excesses such...
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October 8, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.” In an interview at her Pentagon office Tuesday, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson said...
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October 4, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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