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It seems to be an axiom of modern projects that for every project team member, every minute of every day should be filled with assigned tasks. I know project managers who boast of loading themselves and their subordinates with way more than 100% of available...
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March 4, 2015 Bruce Benson
Team Management
The key was that I knew what was normal, what a typical project looked like, how the typical project would play out. This included all the typical problems that would go wrong. Most importantly I knew that given just enough time in the overall schedule, we would have the time to fix any issues.
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February 19, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
According to neuroscientist Tali Sharot of University College, London, the group of people who turn out to be more accurate about predicting how long it will take to complete tasks — and how likely they are to succeed — are the clinically depressed. Optimists underestimate...
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February 5, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
If you kept your money in the stock market this summer, you're likely feeling pretty smart now.
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December 30, 2014 Bruce Benson
Planning, Schedule
It was, to put it mildly, a high-risk maneuver.
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November 18, 2014 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
He’s skeptical. Most customers don't really need to analyze years of data.
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October 30, 2014 Bruce Benson
Metrics
I'd be sitting there reading the comics going, ‘Look at this. Just do this. This is incredible.'
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October 28, 2014 Bruce Benson
Planning
Our model knows more about how to get into many colleges than their own admissions officers know.
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October 9, 2014 Bruce Benson
Metrics
I thought I was getting the best information from the best experts, but clearly that didn’t go well. If I had a magic wand ....
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October 7, 2014 Bruce Benson
Tracking
The lawsuit filed against Oracle by the Attorney General of Oregon is a desperate attempt to deflect blame for their failures to manage a complex IT project.
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August 28, 2014 Bruce Benson
Tracking
That turned out to be wrong as the panel’s lone skeptic delights in pointing out. “Look at all the money the Yankees have been spending without much success,”
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May 23, 2014 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Oh boy, I think. Here we go again. We had a problem. When we completed and delivered our last project, our status showed we had zero outstanding defects.
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May 15, 2014 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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January 30, 2014 Bruce Benson
Management, Metrics
The group estimated it would take two years to get done. Yet 40% of comparable projects failed, and for the teams that did finish, it took seven years.
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January 13, 2014 Bruce Benson
Schedule
Detroit’s pensions are underfunded by as much as $3.5 billion in part because of unrealistic assumptions of 8 percent annual investment returns. Unrealistic!?
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October 10, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
