Are 67 Percent Of Your Projects Delivered On Time?
Are you able to get your projects done early or on time?
Yes - 67%
No - 33%
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It Must Be Something Other Than The Project Management Schedule
The notion that an inadequate project management schedule is often the root cause of other problems in the project generated some insightful responses. While insightful, they also illustrate what I consider to be the typical misconceptions we have about how project problems are just too complex to ever be "simply the schedule."
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Improving Project Management Productivity Does Not Save Time
That’s the ticket. Let’s get a great project management tool that will help us get everything done faster. We’ll complete all our projects quicker and finally deliver more of them on time! Not so fast young Jedi apprentice ....
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Project Management or Death by Detail?
There is great comfort in trying to know every detail so that we as managers can make sure everything goes right. This desire for working out all the details, using project management tools, instead often results in detail overload that obscures the most important aspects of the project. Instead, there is an often simpler approach that works surprisingly well.
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Two Ways To Make Project Management Problems No Big Deal By Managing Risk
Project risk management is not about not having problems. Risk management is about being able to handle the problems that come up. With good risk management the problems that occur have a very low probability of ultimately impacting the project. Here are two approaches that have worked for us.
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Four Insights Into The Best Use Of Your Project Management Experience
I talked excitedly about taking a small team of developers and reducing an eight-year backlog of change requests to nothing after two years of incremental development. My colleagues at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) were unimpressed. "But Bruce, your experience may not be the definitive one!" This wonderful statement was used to dismiss everything I knew in just the few seconds it took to say it.
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We Really Can Know If Our Project Estimates Are Accurate
The bottom line is that you can know if your project management tool estimating is accurate. More to the point, estimating in a project can be verifiably accurate.
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