How To Make Our Management Blunder Proof
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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Past Performance Does Not Guarantee Future Results — Except In Project Management
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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Studying Both Good and Bad Projects Ensures Our Success
Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, was constantly visiting competitor’s stores to see what they were doing. This same idea can help our projects be successful.
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Why We Need To Measure And Understand First And Then Decide What To Do
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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It Is Our Fault The Customer Keeps Asking For More
Let’s just do it 20% faster. If we could really improve 20% … well why can’t we improve another 20% on top of that? Let's do that! Go Team, Go!
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You Can Tell The Good Guys Because They Pay Less Taxes
Are they really bad guys or are they just doing what we asked them to do? Can we tell the difference? If so, our projects will have a greater chance of success.
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Are We Measuring Project Quality Or Just Activity?
The VP of Quality and the VP of Test both showed up at our project meeting. They were mad.
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Project Management Improvement Is As Easy As Brewing Coffee
How an experiment in brewing the perfect pot of coffee can help us to improve our project management
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Project Managers Follow The Crowd As Your Last Resort
Should we simply follow the crowd until we found something that suggests another course of action?
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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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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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How to get An “A” On Our Project Management
My job was to evaluate how well our government projects were doing. The projects were expected to be using the prescribed latests and greatest project management tools and development technologies to help ensure they were successful. Here is how we finally achieved an "A" in our project management.
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If Quality Assurance Is Project Managing Then We Are In Big Trouble
The QA Director literally tried to take over management of the project by telling the teams how they should develop the product. This was all done under the guise of quality assurance. It became simply bad project management.
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Manage Your Projects By Example To Improve Performance
In trying to get a handle on improving product performance, we discovered that simple examples were more effective as project management tools than were complex charts and spreadsheets.
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Project Management Quality Needs Data Not Beliefs
It was a high level meeting. Lots of VPs. It included our Corporate Chief Quality Officer. He was a big man with a booming voice and was very intimidating to the other VPs.
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