We Have To Do Something — Is Often Bad Project Management
Management, being in charge and responsible for results, has to do something when things are not going right! Maybe not.
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Project Managers Get The Motivation Right!
“I’ve seen your numbers Bruce. But if we don’t ship by next month, we’ll be out of business.” Good motivation, yes? No! Here is instead what worked for us.
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Project Management Tools And Why Being Highly Customizable Can Be A Bad Thing
If a tool’s power is touted as its customizability then we might want to look closely at the total cost of deploying such a project management tool.
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Project Managers – Now Is The Time!
What is good for the entrepreneur is equally good for the project manager in an established company.
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Project Manager Don’t Ring That Bell For The Wrong Reason
Taking a great idea, like a dinner bell or a project meeting, and overloading it with unrelated activities can kill an otherwise great project management tool.
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Successful Project Management Is As Easy As Safely Flying A Plane
It’s been a decade since passengers have died in the crash of an airliner carrying more than 100 people. Its a dramatic turnaround. How did they do it?
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How to Gracefully Degrade Your Project Management in a Crisis
It is going to happen. A crisis will ensue, and all that good management stuff we do, some of it will have to go out the window. Huh? Shouldn’t we always do everything right, all the time?
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Project Manager Is It Really A Crisis?
My boss appeared confused with my position. “No, no” he says “we have to get those panics down. Push them to focus first on the panics!”
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Project Managers Are We Managing Or Are We Theorizing?
It was a great theory, that our project slowdown was due to having only the most difficult defects remaining, but was that really the case?
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Why Project Management Dilbert Style Works
It is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.
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Project Managers Are You Managing Or Are You Experimenting?
Are we managing projects or are we conducting experiments? Managing you say? Are you really sure?
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Project Management Improvement Is As Easy As Brewing Coffee
How an experiment in brewing the perfect pot of coffee can help us to improve our project management
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Use Bad Situations To Make Good Project Management Changes
Problems are often opportunities in disguise. Here, a high turnover of staff was turned into a force for project management change and improvement.
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The One Great But Often Overlooked Project Management Improvement Technique
I simply said “hey, I got a great idea, let’s do X!” Everyone got excited and we finally had an effective technique. Where did I find this new technique?
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Maybe We Should Ignore Our Boss
At such an inauspicious moment, with management dead set against the idea, it surely would have seemed foolhardy to continue designing computer operating systems.
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