Consider organizing your project management change effort as a "service" tool. This approach helps reduce resistance and it highlights how you are here to help. For us, it resulted in rapid improvements where previous efforts had little or no impact.
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June 5, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
This post is adapted from an e-mail I had sent to a CEO who was looking for project management tools to help deliver his products when promised. In the past his organization had successfully been able to know precisely where their product readiness stood. Trending defects will work well in managing projects of all types.
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May 29, 2009 Bruce Benson
Reporting, Schedule
Estimating a schedule is one of the most critical things we will do so let's see if we can get it right.
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May 22, 2009 Bruce Benson
Reporting, Schedule
Honesty in project management reporting is just more efficient. Just report the status of a project as it is. If things are late, it will show things as late. If things are confused, it will show things as confused. Spending valuable time making things look better on slides than it does in reality is not productive.
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May 15, 2009 Bruce Benson
Communication, Reporting, Schedule
