I'm a great advocate of managing using objective, data driven, project management tools. I often call it being "brutally honest" but with the insight it is only "brutal" to organizations that have locked themselves into other than objective approaches. Here are five reasons why being objective is hard, and ways we successfully overcame these barriers.
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February 22, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Sometimes it is the team process and not the project requirements that determines a project's schedule.
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February 15, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
Make sure we know what it is we do well, and what we don't do well, so we don't discard our best practices when scrambling to stay afloat.
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February 8, 2011 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
We have a temperature sensor that sits outside our bedroom window. My wife says it can't be correct. Why? Because it is up next to the house and the house will warm it. She says the local news temperature report is better. Who is correct?
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February 1, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Know the history of how our organization has performed in the past.
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January 25, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
It was simple. Submit our request for changes or enhancements to the product. It then goes through a prioritization effort and depending upon where it lands, we get our features or we don’t. That was the process, but few people believed in it. A lot of requested features never got into the product, at least not through this process. Instead, many of our new capabilities were introduced by what could best be described as hostage taking.
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January 11, 2011 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management
There are simple project management tools that allow us to quickly and accurately estimate projects (or tasks) even when we don't have a lot of time to make the estimate nor a lot of details on the effort.
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January 4, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
