Inexperience Can Be Our Greatest Asset
Go for it. Your inexperience can be your greatest asset.
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Be The Right Kind Of Expert
In a moment of decisiveness ... I was transformed. By making that fateful decision, I put myself in a place where I finally developed the right expertise.
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Do We As Managers Tell or Sell Our Directions?
As our team goes through various predictable stages of growth, we as project managers should often vary our approach based upon the current stage of our team.
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It Really Is Simple — We Have To Change To Improve
We know they have the answers, but now we’re whining because they expect us to learn their way of thinking. Why is it so hard?
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An Easy Fix To Some Of Our Biggest Problems
Development's management regularly chastised the project testing team for its poor performance and said that this was hampering development’s productivity.
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How To Manage When Experts Make Mistakes
Because everyone now had a computer, everyone was sure they knew how to expertly manage them.
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Project Management Insights From Detroit’s Bankruptcy
Detroit’s pensions are underfunded by as much as $3.5 billion in part because of unrealistic assumptions of 8 percent annual investment returns. Unrealistic!?
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Duh! Just Match Our Promises To Our Capability
Too many organizations just do it backwards.
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How To Escape The Project Estimation Time Trap
Even when teams achieve high accuracy for actuals versus planned, there is no good way of leveraging that data to improve the estimation process? Not so fast.
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Project Management Lessons From The Snowden Affair
That’s astonishing to me. The rules are not being applied well or they need to be more strict! Uh, oh - not so fast Senator.
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Disorganized? Or Are You An In-box Hero?
My inbox has 16000 e-mails and my "All Mail" folder has more than 100000 e-mails. I'm not disorganized. I'm on top of the information I need. Here is how.
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Your Lack Of Success Is Nothing More Than A Bad Habit
What we too often do is based upon what we’ve done in the past even if what we’ve done in the past has us regularly delivering our projects months late.
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Studying Both Good and Bad Projects Ensures Our Success
Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, was constantly visiting competitor’s stores to see what they were doing. This same idea can help our projects be successful.
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Your Best Metrics May Be Intangibly Quantum Entangled
No one seemed to see what was going on, and everyone kept saying we were just about done. I just needed a way to measure this monstrosity so we could manage it.
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Why We Need To Measure And Understand First And Then Decide What To Do
The VP went ballistic when I reported that it took us one minute on average to review each product defect. She simply did not like working with facts.
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