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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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 Managers – Check your Assumptions!
My boss told me my job was to drive down the roughly 500 defects on our current project so we can ship it. I also noticed another 500 issues in the database that were tagged as "work to be done." My boss said to ignore them.
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Key Metrics Often Tell Us More Than Classic Project Management Tools
Some key project metrics not only provide tactical insight into how a project is going, they can also provide an overall strategic view not found elsewhere. Here are three we've used successfully.
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Five Secrets For Creating Successful Project Management Metrics
A metric is a project management tool that captures an essential aspect of the project or organization and provides insight, allowing us to make rapid and accurate project management decisions. Here are five secrets for creating successful project management metrics.
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Are Projects Really In Chaos?
Success is an amazingly difficult notion to objectively pin down in many projects. While we need to be flexible, I've noted that there is a fine line between flexibility and chaos. Often it is but a single voice that makes all the difference.
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Five Reasons Managing Projects Objectively Is Hard And How To Succeed Anyway
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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Project Managers – Double Check Your Temperature!
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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Project Management By Living With Our Data
Knowing our project and organization at a gut level allows us to judge and react both rapidly and with accuracy. Living with data, by being immersed in it -- at least upon occasion, can only help us continue to get better at managing our projects.
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Are 67 Percent Of Your Projects Delivered On Time?
Are you able to get your projects done early or on time?
Yes - 67%
No - 33%
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Project Management Metrics Madness? Don’t Do It!
It happened pretty regularly. To make some functionally work on the project we needed something else that we overlooked. No problem. We make the change -- tag it as a missed requirement in our project management tool -- and approve it. A couple of weeks later the additional functionality is completed and gets submitted to be put into the product. It is submitted as a “new requirement.” It shows up as scope creep. I called up the project manager and explain they tagged it incorrectly. Please change it to a missed requirement. “Oh no!”, she practically yells, “It is a new requirement!
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