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The healthcare industry may be experiencing an ongoing productivity paradox, mirroring earlier patterns in manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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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 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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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 typical misconception is that project problems are just too complex to ever be "simply the schedule."
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Are Project Management Costs Really The Problem?
I’ve rarely experienced a project that was on time where anyone complained about it being too costly.
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Three Reasons Not To Finish A Task Or Project Early
We've seen project reports where the team bragged "and we finished early!" Kind of like it was a badge of honor or something. Here are three good reasons we've found for not wanting to finish a project or task early.
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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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Almost a Great Project Test Organization
Improving quality can have a surprisingly stressful impact on your project testing organization. A good set of quality metrics can help keep your improvements on track as your organizations adjusts to the new reality.
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Is Your Project Management On Steroids? Maybe You Should Kick The Habit!
There are some great project management tool techniques such as Six Sigma and Monte Carlo that can boost your productivity. Sometimes these techniques, if used too early, may be too strong a medicine for your organization.
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Are You Managing the Critical Project Thread?
Sometimes we just need to bring order to one key project process to stabilize and enhance the overall project.
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Does Anyone Really Care If Our Project Is On Time?
I would often talk excitedly about some project we completed that was on time and had good results. Folks would say "yeah, we did that too." In my naive enthusiasm, I would pepper them with questions on what they did and how they did it. I would get horrified looks and then they would flee. I would come to discover that too many of those other on time projects were more noise than substance. How could a simple notion such as "on time" be so complicated?"
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Is Your Project On Time?
I talk a lot about "on time" as being a project management tool. This might strike many as backwards.
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Get The Project Management Schedule Right!
Estimating a schedule is one of the most critical things we will do so let's see if we can get it right.
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