Management, being in charge and responsible for results, has to do something when things are not going right! Maybe not.
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March 30, 2012 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
“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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March 28, 2012 Bruce Benson
Communication
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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March 26, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
What is good for the entrepreneur is equally good for the project manager in an established company.
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March 20, 2012 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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March 12, 2012 Bruce Benson
Communication
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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March 7, 2012 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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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March 5, 2012 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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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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February 28, 2012 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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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February 23, 2012 Bruce Benson
Metrics
It is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.
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February 21, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Are we managing projects or are we conducting experiments? Managing you say? Are you really sure?
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February 8, 2012 Bruce Benson
Management
How an experiment in brewing the perfect pot of coffee can help us to improve our project management
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February 6, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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February 1, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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January 30, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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January 23, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management