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How To Escape The Project Estimation Time Trap
Even when teams achieve high accuracy for actuals versus planned, there is no good way of leveraging that data to improve the estimation process? Not so fast.
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How To Avoid Second Order Ignorance
Development is primarily a knowledge discovery activity. But sometimes there are things about the system we don’t know we don't know. However, there is a solution.
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Extreme Project Management Lessons From The Stock Market
Everyone loves to talk about the extremes, but if we can't tell the difference between an extreme and what is normal, then we are missing real insight.
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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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Why Context Is Critical To Making Successful Choices
First off, I mention that we’ve been successful every time at getting organizations to on-time (i.e., within two weeks). Not only were we on time, but the quality of the product was dramatically improved.
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How To Quickly Give Your Boss An Accurate Estimate
The problem is not a surprise request for a quick estimate. The problem is that we are not prepared to give quick estimates. Here is how we did it.
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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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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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On-Time Successful Projects? This Year We Can
Projects that consistently complete on time? Gee, we can’t do that. No way ... What? We can?
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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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This Is Your Number One Priority
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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Too Many Rules Mean Something Is Wrong With Our Project Management
We had the premier project for the organization and we were determined to finally get a product out on-time and with good quality. We did it, and in doing so highlighted how many of our rules were not really helping us to complete a quality project.
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Five Secrets For Creating Successful Project Management Metrics
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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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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