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If Our Project Management Crisis Is Obvious To Everyone Then It Is Too Late To Fix It

Denial was no longer a managerial option. It was a bit scary, but at the end of the day we executed on the plan. We delivered on what we said we should do.

September 10, 2012 Bruce Benson Leadership

How To Avoid The Slow Death Of Responsibility For Project Management Results

Is our project management organization in a place where it makes decisions that leaves us wondering "what were we thinking?"

September 5, 2012 Bruce Benson Leadership

Project Manager Is The Instant-On War Room Our Solution To Get The Information We Need?

The old IT way was to figure out which reports people wanted and deliver it to them weeks or days later. Here instead are a few ways that actually work.

August 28, 2012 Bruce Benson Communication

Why We Should Focus On The Not So Obvious

Project Manager Why You Should Focus On The Not So Obvious

It is often too easy to focus on the obvious stuff and not on what it is we really need to be doing.

August 17, 2012 Bruce Benson Leadership

Project Manager If We Have Too Many Meetings We May Be The Problem

Too many meetings is often a symptom of a bigger problem and won't be solved with ... more meetings.

July 10, 2012 Bruce Benson Communication

Why We Don’t Really Need All Those Experts

To put it bluntly, being an expert can be highly overrated.

July 6, 2012 Bruce Benson Training

Why Project Management Metrics Often Fail and How Yours Can Succeed

How many times have we measured something and it came out to not mean much of anything to anyone? Pay attention to what Mark Zuckerberg is doing.

July 3, 2012 Bruce Benson Metrics

Is Our Project’s Cost Overrun Really Just A Schedule Problem?

Our project costs are out of control, so why are we talking about fixing the schedule first?

May 21, 2012 Bruce Benson Cost 1 Comment

Can Your IT Project Manager Sell Better Than Sales?

Technical folks often look more like the customer than the sales and marketing folks I’ve worked with. Let’s take a real world example to add some perspective.

May 14, 2012 Bruce Benson Cost

Are We Measuring Project Quality Or Just Activity?

The VP of Quality and the VP of Test both showed up at our project meeting. They were mad.

May 7, 2012 Bruce Benson Quality

Why We Can Never Make Just One Change As A Project Manager

Purchase this Project Management Tool and you will never deliver a project late again! Maybe, but only if we first change just a few more things.

April 30, 2012 Bruce Benson Change Management

Sometimes When They Say They Want The Project Fast It Is Just Talk

OK, which one is it? You want a lot of changes fast, but when we give them to you, you tell us that we are changing too much too often!

April 23, 2012 Bruce Benson Change Management

Why Project Managers Should Not Set Up Metrics To Measure Improvement Efforts

Establish up front how we are going to know if the agile adoption was successful? If we have to do that, we may have other problems to deal with first.

April 13, 2012 Bruce Benson Change Management, Metrics

How To Ask The Right Project Management Question And Get The Right Answer

A somewhat humorous real world example and a few key principles that got us the project management answers we needed and vaulted our projects on to success.

April 11, 2012 Bruce Benson Metrics

Project Managers Get The Vision Right!

There is no one who knows what all needs to happen. Is the solution to let the decisions be made where they’re executed, and maybe communicated upwards?

April 9, 2012 Bruce Benson Communication

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If Our Project Management Crisis Is Obvious To Everyone Then It Is Too Late To Fix It

How To Avoid The Slow Death Of Responsibility For Project Management Results

Project Manager Is The Instant-On War Room Our Solution To Get The Information We Need?

Why We Should Focus On The Not So Obvious

Project Manager If We Have Too Many Meetings We May Be The Problem

Why We Don’t Really Need All Those Experts

Why Project Management Metrics Often Fail and How Yours Can Succeed

Is Our Project’s Cost Overrun Really Just A Schedule Problem?

Can Your IT Project Manager Sell Better Than Sales?

Are We Measuring Project Quality Or Just Activity?

Why We Can Never Make Just One Change As A Project Manager

Sometimes When They Say They Want The Project Fast It Is Just Talk

Why Project Managers Should Not Set Up Metrics To Measure Improvement Efforts

How To Ask The Right Project Management Question And Get The Right Answer

Project Managers Get The Vision Right!

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