Is Our Project’s Cost Overrun Really Just A Schedule Problem?
Our project costs are out of control, so why are we talking about fixing the schedule first?
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Can Your IT Project Manager Sell Better Than Sales?
Technical folks often look more like the customer than the sales and marketing folks I’ve worked with. Let’s take a real world example to add some perspective.
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Are We Measuring Project Quality Or Just Activity?
The VP of Quality and the VP of Test both showed up at our project meeting. They were mad.
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Why We Can Never Make Just One Change As A Project Manager
Purchase this Project Management Tool and you will never deliver a project late again! Maybe, but only if we first change just a few more things.
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Sometimes When They Say They Want The Project Fast It Is Just Talk
OK, which one is it? You want a lot of changes fast, but when we give them to you, you tell us that we are changing too much too often!
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Why Project Managers Should Not Set Up Metrics To Measure Improvement Efforts
Establish up front how we are going to know if the agile adoption was successful? If we have to do that, we may have other problems to deal with first.
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How To Ask The Right Project Management Question And Get The Right Answer
A somewhat humorous real world example and a few key principles that got us the project management answers we needed and vaulted our projects on to success.
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Project Managers Get The Vision Right!
There is no one who knows what all needs to happen. Is the solution to let the decisions be made where they’re executed, and maybe communicated upwards?
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We Have To Do Something — Is Often Bad Project Management
Management, being in charge and responsible for results, has to do something when things are not going right! Maybe not.
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Project Managers Get The Motivation Right!
“I’ve seen your numbers Bruce. But if we don’t ship by next month, we’ll be out of business.” Good motivation, yes? No! Here is instead what worked for us.
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Project Management Tools And Why Being Highly Customizable Can Be A Bad Thing
If a tool’s power is touted as its customizability then we might want to look closely at the total cost of deploying such a project management tool.
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Project Managers – Now Is The Time!
What is good for the entrepreneur is equally good for the project manager in an established company.
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Project Manager Don’t Ring That Bell For The Wrong Reason
Taking a great idea, like a dinner bell or a project meeting, and overloading it with unrelated activities can kill an otherwise great project management tool.
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Successful Project Management Is As Easy As Safely Flying A Plane
It’s been a decade since passengers have died in the crash of an airliner carrying more than 100 people. Its a dramatic turnaround. How did they do it?
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How to Gracefully Degrade Your Project Management in a Crisis
It is going to happen. A crisis will ensue, and all that good management stuff we do, some of it will have to go out the window. Huh? Shouldn’t we always do everything right, all the time?
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