Did The Tech Giants Botch Obamacare?
Still, he says, the contractors are huge companies familiar with complexity, and in most cases they’ve had years to address the sites’ problems.
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Can We Really Just Ignore The Small Stuff?
In the worst case I figured, I could always change them back to what they were. So I “fixed” them. Disaster?
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How To Make Our Management Blunder Proof
I had pulled the wrong data in updating my status. It looked like a huge mistake in my data and it put me into a cold sweat. I was doomed.
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An Easy Fix To Some Of Our Biggest Problems
Development's management regularly chastised the project testing team for its poor performance and said that this was hampering development’s productivity.
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Your Best Metrics May Be Intangibly Quantum Entangled
No one seemed to see what was going on, and everyone kept saying we were just about done. I just needed a way to measure this monstrosity so we could manage it.
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Why We Need To Measure And Understand First And Then Decide What To Do
The VP went ballistic when I reported that it took us one minute on average to review each product defect. She simply did not like working with facts.
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Are We Just Duplicating Our Problems?
Those darn quality testers kept reporting the same issues, over and over again. This duplicate defect reporting was causing more issues than it was fixing!
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The Trend Is Our Friend … Or Our Foe
Everything is perfect ... until it all goes wrong! Huh? This is how we stayed on top of our biggest projects.
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You’ve Got To Do This Daily
There is a simple notion I’ve often noticed. If I personally don’t do something regularly, then it doesn’t matter how simple it is, I will not “get it.”
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Project Managers How To Adopt The Language Of Your Customer
How we came to better understand our customer's challenges and how it helped us to better help them.
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Why Project Management Metrics Often Fail and How Yours Can Succeed
How many times have we measured something and it came out to not mean much of anything to anyone? Pay attention to what Mark Zuckerberg is doing.
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Are We Measuring Project Quality Or Just Activity?
The VP of Quality and the VP of Test both showed up at our project meeting. They were mad.
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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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How To Ask The Right Project Management Question And Get The Right Answer
A somewhat humorous real world example and a few key principles that got us the project management answers we needed and vaulted our projects on to success.
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How to Gracefully Degrade Your Project Management in a Crisis
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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