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I prefer agility and efficiency to being the biggest.
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October 19, 2018 Bruce Benson
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Although Pompeii is frozen in time, the workers are in a hurry — to spend money. In the next 11 weeks they have to burn through almost $100 million — about five times what they’ve spent in the past three years — or risk losing...
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November 4, 2015 Bruce Benson
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The numbers are big, but the effectiveness of the infrastructure spending has been very, very poor.
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July 2, 2015 Bruce Benson
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Getting free rein over our work schedules helps improve our productivity. Just don't give that improvement away for free.
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December 13, 2013 Bruce Benson
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Our project costs are out of control, so why are we talking about fixing the schedule first?
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May 21, 2012 Bruce Benson
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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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May 14, 2012 Bruce Benson
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This is obvious, yes? If we do work for a customer, we charge them for it. Ok, so the customer would rather get work done for free. It helps their bottom line after all, doesn’t it? Maybe not.
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September 29, 2011 Bruce Benson
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A good budget is often the output of fixing other parts of the project management process such as project planning and schedule estimating.
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July 20, 2011 Bruce Benson
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Computing the project cost using our project management tools is a fundamental step in planning a project. Yet, I’ve found that some managers have a tough time when large numbers are involved or it is the first time they’ve ever seen an accurate overall cost of a project.
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November 1, 2010 Bruce Benson
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I’ve rarely experienced a project that was on time where anyone complained about it being too costly.
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October 5, 2010 Bruce Benson
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