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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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August 26, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
An warning message from a satellite 1.5 million kilometers in space that gets processed within seconds then waits for someone to type it into an email. Why?
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July 26, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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June 26, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
It took him three to four hours a week and left him with an unparalleled understanding of how money was moving out of the company.
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March 14, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
We need data to improve our performance and the surprising finding is that we generally already have just about all we need.
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January 24, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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July 3, 2012 Bruce Benson
Metrics
The VP of Quality and the VP of Test both showed up at our project meeting. They were mad.
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May 7, 2012 Bruce Benson
Quality
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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April 13, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Metrics
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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April 11, 2012 Bruce Benson
Metrics
My boss appeared confused with my position. “No, no” he says “we have to get those panics down. Push them to focus first on the panics!”
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February 28, 2012 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
It was a great theory, that our project slowdown was due to having only the most difficult defects remaining, but was that really the case?
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February 23, 2012 Bruce Benson
Metrics
It is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.
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February 21, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Are we managing projects or are we conducting experiments? Managing you say? Are you really sure?
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February 8, 2012 Bruce Benson
Management
How an experiment in brewing the perfect pot of coffee can help us to improve our project management
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February 6, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Should we simply follow the crowd until we found something that suggests another course of action?
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January 17, 2012 Bruce Benson
Planning