It Sure Sounds Like The Solution To Our Problems
We have all these problems and look here is another tool that says it will fix everything. The tool that finally did fix all our problems was much simpler.
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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?
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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?
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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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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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Project Managers, How To Stop Making The Same Old Mistakes
Yet study after study, analyst after analyst, say that developers are making the same mistakes they made in 2000. That they made in 1990. And earlier.
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Project Manager Are We Really Managing Both Risk And Change?
In speaking with project managers, methodology masters and tool providers, it seems the key to successful technology adoption is to change the corporate culture.
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Project Managers Beware of Oversimplifying Your Problems
"I’m always on the lookout for ideas concerning software estimation, even as I ponder my own eternal mantra: Estimates are always wrong." Not!
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How To Keep Your Project Management On The Cutting Edge
Too many perfectly good methodologies and techniques have regressed over time because we didn’t make wise choices in trying to perfect them.
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Why Change Management Oriented Projects Are Hard and How To Succeed Anyway
Many projects have an S shaped pattern that is our adoption success curve for our effort. Understanding our project adoption and productivity curves will help us ensure our projects are successful.
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Why Waterfall Project Management Threatens To Return
Especially for complex and costly IT projects, customers need to invest more in the up-front evaluation. Oh, no. Here we go again.
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Project Management Perseverance Is Still One Way to Finally Get It Done
The FBI Sentinel project had been problem-plagued and had converted over to Agile. The Sentinel project in turn had sprung out of the FBI’s “Virtual Case File” system which was considered a failure. I'm always interested in lessons learned from projects that struggle to be successful.
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