Project Manager Is It Really A Crisis?
My boss appeared confused with my position. “No, no” he says “we have to get those panics down. Push them to focus first on the panics!”
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Project Managers Are We Managing Or Are We Theorizing?
It was a great theory, that our project slowdown was due to having only the most difficult defects remaining, but was that really the case?
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Why Project Management Dilbert Style Works
It is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.
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Project Managers Are You Managing Or Are You Experimenting?
Are we managing projects or are we conducting experiments? Managing you say? Are you really sure?
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Project Management Improvement Is As Easy As Brewing Coffee
How an experiment in brewing the perfect pot of coffee can help us to improve our project management
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Use Bad Situations To Make Good Project Management Changes
Problems are often opportunities in disguise. Here, a high turnover of staff was turned into a force for project management change and improvement.
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The One Great But Often Overlooked Project Management Improvement Technique
I simply said “hey, I got a great idea, let’s do X!” Everyone got excited and we finally had an effective technique. Where did I find this new technique?
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Maybe We Should Ignore Our Boss
At such an inauspicious moment, with management dead set against the idea, it surely would have seemed foolhardy to continue designing computer operating systems.
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Project Managers, How To Stop Making The Same Old Mistakes
Yet study after study, analyst after analyst, say that developers are making the same mistakes they made in 2000. That they made in 1990. And earlier.
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Project Managers Follow The Crowd As Your Last Resort
Should we simply follow the crowd until we found something that suggests another course of action?
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Do We Manage Projects By Intuition or by Methodology?
What happens if we are not using a method? What do we call it then? I call it management by intuition. Others call it management by experience. Does this work?
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Two Steps to Getting Truly Useful Project Management Metrics
One of the hard steps in getting to truly useful project management metrics is to get to a point where the metric tells us something useful and we believe it.
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Project Manager Are We Really Managing Both Risk And Change?
In speaking with project managers, methodology masters and tool providers, it seems the key to successful technology adoption is to change the corporate culture.
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On-Time Successful Projects? This Year We Can
Projects that consistently complete on time? Gee, we can’t do that. No way ... What? We can?
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