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The bottom line is that you can know if your project management tool estimating is accurate. More to the point, estimating in a project can be verifiably accurate.
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December 21, 2009 Bruce Benson
Schedule
Making a real change is rarely easy. A real change, one that goes to the heart of a fundamental problem, is usually very difficult, but doable.
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October 11, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
There are some great project management tool techniques such as Six Sigma and Monte Carlo that can boost your productivity. Sometimes these techniques, if used too early, may be too strong a medicine for your organization.
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September 14, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
Sometimes we just need to bring order to one key project process to stabilize and enhance the overall project.
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August 25, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
I would often talk excitedly about some project we completed that was on time and had good results. Folks would say "yeah, we did that too." In my naive enthusiasm, I would pepper them with questions on what they did and how they did it. I would get horrified looks and then they would flee. I would come to discover that too many of those other on time projects were more noise than substance. How could a simple notion such as "on time" be so complicated?"
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August 5, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
I talk a lot about "on time" as being a project management tool. This might strike many as backwards.
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August 2, 2009 Bruce Benson
Schedule
Your development team is telling you it will take 24 weeks to do product development. You only have 20 weeks to your product launch window. After that, the product won't be competitive. What does a good project manager do?
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July 5, 2009 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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
