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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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January 5, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Risk Management
"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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December 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
My boss told me my job was to drive down the roughly 500 defects on our current project so we can ship it. I also noticed another 500 issues in the database that were tagged as "work to be done." My boss said to ignore them.
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December 14, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Now that we are getting close to the project launch, we start to get "help." We get VPs showing up. What is this all about? How can they afford to do this?
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December 12, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
I got into management because that was where the problems were. This would be simple, I thought, get the management right and then we could get the job done right. Boy, was I delusional.
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November 30, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
I loved the book Moneyball. It highlighted how we do too much based on habit and custom and not always on hard data about what actually works.
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November 28, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Some key project metrics not only provide tactical insight into how a project is going, they can also provide an overall strategic view not found elsewhere. Here are three we've used successfully.
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November 21, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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The project manager needs to take charge of their project. Allowing “strong personalities” or other persons (even your boss) to effectively take charge of the project is a recipe for failure. Here is how we did it.
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November 8, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Security is our number one priority. Except for quality which is our number one priority, right along with speed to market which is our number one priority. So, what is a good project manager to do?
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November 2, 2011 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
A metric is a project management tool that captures an essential aspect of the project or organization and provides insight, allowing us to make rapid and accurate project management decisions. Here are five secrets for creating successful project management metrics.
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October 17, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
We took the official plan document and turned it into a real plan that we used everyday. This was different from the classic plan that was created to meet a checklist requirement. Here is how we made the change and how moving to a real plan can often confuse folks and how we overcame this normal confusion.
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October 12, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
It’s a business management problem! Management’s goal should be to figure out a way to facilitate data access. We’ve lost the ability to move quickly. Our approval cycles squash great ideas. We kill with kindness and best intentions.
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August 24, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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August 22, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The CEO told all their employees to stop using other manufacturers' cell phones and only use the company's phones. It was indefensible, he said, that employees would be seen using, other phones on the job.
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August 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Only the knowledge workers know exactly what they are doing and how they are doing it. Because knowledge work is invisible, no one else, including the managers, can understand what the knowledge workers are doing or how they are doing it.
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July 30, 2011 Bruce Benson
Team Management
