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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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October 27, 2018 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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Projects that consistently complete on time? Gee, we can’t do that. No way ... What? We can?
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January 3, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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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May 23, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Are you able to get your projects done early or on time?
Yes - 67%
No - 33%
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November 16, 2010 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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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October 27, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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I’ve rarely experienced a project that was on time where anyone complained about it being too costly.
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October 5, 2010 Bruce Benson
Cost
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We've seen project management tool 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 early.
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May 3, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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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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December 21, 2009 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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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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September 29, 2009 Bruce Benson
Testing
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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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September 14, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
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Sometimes we just need to bring order to one key project process to stabilize and enhance the overall project.
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August 25, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
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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August 5, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
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I talk a lot about "on time" as being a project management tool. This might strike many as backwards. Normally we figure if we do a good job then we will deliver on time. I maintain that often, more often than one would suspect, we can figure out what "on time" looks like and then squeeze the project into that period of time.
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August 2, 2009 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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Project management tools and techniques help us to do the job we need to do. Yet, the tools can often become overwhelming with updating them, trying to get just the right report out of them, etc. It is easy to lose track of what we are trying to achieve. 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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May 22, 2009 Bruce Benson
Reporting, Schedule