Project Management Tools That Work

Dealing With Human Error

"The human error was that the individual who's responsible for communicating in the organization to apply the patch, did not." Wait, what?

November 15, 2017 Bruce Benson Risk Management

Honesty Works Well But Only With Practice

Two days after the board of directors issued a statement that its members had no idea of the allegations of abuse by Weinstein, TNY today quoted board member Lance Maerov admitting he had heard of multiple settlements. Even though he added he believed they were...

November 3, 2017 Bruce Benson Honesty

Is It Faux Agile Or Just Uninspired?

Sometimes we just need to be reinvigorated.

October 25, 2017 Bruce Benson Change Management

Dealing with the Uncertainty in Scientific Results

There is a growing recognition that many important research findings based on statistical evidence are not reproducible.

October 9, 2017 Bruce Benson Metrics

What Problem?

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella met with Lenovo last year and quizzed the company over how it was responding to Skylake problems. “Lenovo was confused,” claims Thurrott. “No one was having any issues.” It appears Microsoft’s own problems were the result of the company’s unique approach...

September 21, 2017 Bruce Benson Communication

What Value Do You Bring To Your Project?

According to [Ashlee] Vance, the assistant, Mary Beth Brown, asked Musk for a significant raise after she’d been working with him for 12 years. In response, Musk told Brown to take two weeks off, during which he would assume her responsibilities and see if she...

September 14, 2017 Bruce Benson Leadership

What’s In Your Methodology?

They all sounded good in theory, but our ability to attain the complete and stated goal of the development phase was limited.

September 6, 2017 Bruce Benson Planning

The Downturns Are An Opportunity Not To Be Missed

It’s a truism in economics that most technological change in any industry takes place not during the boom times, but during the downturns, when firms have to be clever to survive. The Atlantic:This Is the Way the College ‘Bubble’ Ends, July 26, 2017. I’ve often...

August 17, 2017 Bruce Benson Change Management

Doing The Impossible By Using Simple Math

This is not to say Musk will realize his most ambitious goals: landing on Mars, electrifying much of the world’s transportation fleet, and accelerating the transition from a fossil-fuel to a carbon-free economy. But each is closer than most thought possible in such a short...

August 4, 2017 Bruce Benson Metrics

Take the Time to Explain and to Understand

Take time to explain why you believe something — not just what you believe and why your opponent is wrong. So how did Bastian switch over from home birth advocate to home birth critic? It started with conversations with researchers in Sydney, who were compassionate...

July 26, 2017 Bruce Benson Communication

Keeping It Simple For A Reason

Problems stemming from such errors can be very costly and have contributed to a wider concern about the reproducibility of research findings, most notably in medical research.

July 20, 2017 Bruce Benson Metrics

Take Your Moonshot

“We grew up,” says Verily Chief Executive Officer Andy Conrad. The middle-aged geneticist has adopted the Silicon Valley T-shirt and-flip-flops wardrobe of eternal youth, but he’s given up on a lot of the jargon, including Google’s onetime favorite word. Like some other Alphabet holdings, 500-staffer...

June 22, 2017 Bruce Benson Planning