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You wouldn’t believe how sophisticated hacking has become in the past few years. It has, in fact, gotten so mind-blowingly complex and erudite that this word, sophisticated, is now the only one human beings can really use to describe any single act of computer-security violation....
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June 16, 2016 Bruce Benson
Reporting
We’ll be successful, ironically, when it becomes boring.
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May 19, 2016 Bruce Benson
Reporting
I was floored. Speechless. The account manager told me a clear lie to my face. He smiled as he did it.
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November 4, 2014 Bruce Benson
Reporting
In some places it’s not safe to share problems but you can’t improve if you don’t know what the real situation is.
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October 21, 2014 Bruce Benson
Reporting
Does your project management tool tell you how much effort your team is expending on your critical project? A simple calculation showed me that I was managing a house of cards that could come tumbling down unless I took action immediately.
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March 29, 2010 Bruce Benson
Reporting
Eliminating “Honesty Buffers” helps to confront your organizational project management bad habits and hence improve your productivity and quality. Here are nine techniques I’ve used to successfully reduce the “Honesty Buffers.” In Eliminate Your Project Management Honesty Buffers I talk about how you can apply...
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November 3, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Communication, Reporting
Manufacturing buffers help to smooth over problems at each stage of production. The project management tool "honesty buffer" is when someone holds back reporting issues and problems to make things look better than they are. Reducing or eliminating such buffers quickly exposes problems and enables rapid process and quality improvement.
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October 29, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Communication, Reporting
Look into using your existing business systems as part of your project management tools. The business systems used by everyone to do their daily jobs can often provide more current and predictive information than relying solely on our traditional project management tools.
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September 2, 2009 Bruce Benson
Communication, Reporting
If we want a successful project, we may want to develop it remotely, so it is away from the chaos of the main office.
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August 30, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Communication, Reporting
All I had to do was to get about 500 software defects fixed, according to my project management tools. My boss told me I had to have daily meetings with everyone concerned to get this done. This meeting centric approach to managing this project turned out to be utter madness. Simple measurements, that anyone can do, demonstrated that these meetings had no discernible impact.
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July 20, 2009 Bruce Benson
Communication, Reporting
A simple project management tool, such as computing an average, can transform a project from chaotic and out of control to suddenly predictable and manageable. Here are some simple averages that made a huge difference in our management of large and complex projects.
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June 28, 2009 Bruce Benson
Reporting
This post is adapted from an e-mail I had sent to a CEO who was looking for project management tools to help deliver his products when promised. In the past his organization had successfully been able to know precisely where their product readiness stood. Trending defects will work well in managing projects of all types.
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May 29, 2009 Bruce Benson
Reporting, Schedule
Estimating a schedule is one of the most critical things we will do so let's see if we can get it right.
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May 22, 2009 Bruce Benson
Reporting, Schedule
Honesty in project management reporting is just more efficient. Just report the status of a project as it is. If things are late, it will show things as late. If things are confused, it will show things as confused. Spending valuable time making things look better on slides than it does in reality is not productive.
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May 15, 2009 Bruce Benson
Communication, Reporting, Schedule
