Project Managers There Is A Better Use For Those Long Work Hours
We all love it when we have project staff who work around the clock. Makes life easier, doesn’t it? I’m not so sure.
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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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What Project Management Can Learn From Medical Weight Loss Management
Lack of sufficient sleep may compromise the efficacy of typical dietary interventions for weight loss and related metabolic risk reduction. What does this have to do with project management? Everything!
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A Real Project Management Plan May Confuse Many People
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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Being Chaotic Is Often Smart In Project Managing Innovation
“More and more,” Carlson says, “innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly and dumb. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.”
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How To Keep Your Project Management On The Cutting Edge
Ways to avoid succumbing to the bureaucratization and standardization of what is working well while encouraging continual innovation from deep within your organization.
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The Right Project Management But The Wrong Project?
The problem was that we never knew where to start or what to work on first. This was the source of many arguments and many stops and starts in improvement projects. Now, we knew.
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Project Management And Innovation Can Work Against Each Other
Over-managing the innovation process can undermine its effectiveness.
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How Not To Kill Your Project Management Data With Kindness and Best Intentions
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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STOP DOING THAT As A Project Management Tool
Stop doing something you suspect is unproductive and see if anyone notices says Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiner. I love it!
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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 Choose Consensus or Speed?
I face the dilemma: Either be patient and build consensus, or move ahead without the full team’s support. My sense is that it’s time for a change in approach -- time for more personal risk-taking and less conventional wisdom.
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In Project Management The “A” Student Can Be A Problem
I've always been fascinated by how projects and organizations populated by a lot of smart people often just didn't do well. I spent 20 years in the Air Force followed by just over 10 years in the corporate world. There was an unsettling management consistency between these two worlds. I've come to call it the "A" Student Syndrome.
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Is Your Project Management Pragmatic or Zealous?
A carefully selected set of practices that match an organization’s needs is better than using one methodology exclusively.
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Project Management Success by Failing Often
I kept wondering how we could be world leaders but be so bad at managing our efforts that made us leaders? Something wasn’t quite right in this dichotomy. Maybe, I thought, this is just the cost of being good at what we do -- by failing often.
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