How To Stay A Step Ahead By Not Trying Real Hard
If we believe really hard, we certainly should be able to reduce our time by 33%! Maybe, but not by going for it all at once. Here is how we did it.
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Why Senior Management Attention Is Often Based Upon Fear
By not being afraid, by trusting people, you get the best work back.
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Why We Should Plan To Fail
The business manager spoke up in an incredible and disbelieving voice “you are planning to fail?!” Yes, and it became our most successful project to date.
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Planning Is More Important Than The Plan
Your plan will not survive the first encounter with reality. Do I believe that? No, not if I’ve done my homework.
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It Is Our Fault The Customer Keeps Asking For More
Let’s just do it 20% faster. If we could really improve 20% … well why can’t we improve another 20% on top of that? Let's do that! Go Team, Go!
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Got Big Data? Free It For The Greatest Results
An warning message from a satellite 1.5 million kilometers in space that gets processed within seconds then waits for someone to type it into an email. Why?
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Problems? Look Towards Your Best People As The Root Cause
It’s not always the bad guys, doing bad things that cause problems. It’s often your best employees making silly mistakes.
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When A Successful Product Can Be A Bad Thing
It was a bit strange. Here we had a fairly successful product but I almost found myself wishing it had not been. What was wrong with me?
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When Innovating, Go Slow?
The tangled history of innovation reveals a peculiar lesson: Slow is often better than fast ... or maybe not.
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Don’t Wait Forever To Hire The Perfect Expert
We may be missing opportunities by attempting to hire the perfect person.
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If It Won’t Work With Your Team It Won’t Work With An Outsourced Team
Bringing in the big outside guns only ensure that someone will get shot. They just make a mess that you have to clean up yourself. Here is what worked for us.
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Scope Creep Should Be Mandatory
Project plans that extend past 90 days are as accurate as TV weather predictions?
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How To Avoid Second Order Ignorance
Development is primarily a knowledge discovery activity. But sometimes there are things about the system we don’t know we don't know. However, there is a solution.
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Get The Change Right!
Changing an organization is often the real effort behind any project. Here are three phases to change I’ve experienced and how they’ve helped me to succeed.
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Extreme Project Management Lessons From The Stock Market
Everyone loves to talk about the extremes, but if we can't tell the difference between an extreme and what is normal, then we are missing real insight.
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