Lessons Learned From Seattle’s Tunneling Project
Megaprojects in the past 70 years have consistently come in over budget while delivering less than half of their promised monetary benefit.
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Is Discrimination Undermining Your Project?
My conclusion was that a lot of discrimination was very subtle and very easy to mix up with other more socially common tribal behaviors.
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Delaying Projects — Lessons Learned From Electronic Arts
Two years ago, Electronic Arts, the second-largest U.S. video game company, ran on promises. … Several of EA’s biggest 2013 releases, including entries in its SimCity and Battlefield franchises, were so bug-ridden on release that they crashed game servers and were essentially unplayable for days...
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Should Every Minute Of Your Day Be Filled With Activity?
It seems to be an axiom of modern projects that for every project team member, every minute of every day should be filled with assigned tasks. I know project managers who boast of loading themselves and their subordinates with way more than 100% of available...
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Ya Gotta Know What Is Normal
The key was that I knew what was normal, what a typical project looked like, how the typical project would play out. This included all the typical problems that would go wrong. Most importantly I knew that given just enough time in the overall schedule, we would have the time to fix any issues.
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Could Not Possibly Have Picked A Worse Example
Given the data, they concluded that social scientists could not possibly have picked a worse population [Westerners] from which to draw broad generalizations.
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Project Management Lessons From A Radical Industrialist
Ray Anderson went on to describe industry’s toxic legacy and evoked a future in which companies like his clean up their act, compelling others to do the same.
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Success Is Dangerous
Success is dangerous because often you don’t understand why you succeeded. You almost always know why you’ve failed.
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How Not To Lose Your Soul And Still Be Successful
When you start your career, you might think you’re setting out to change the world. But the world is far more likely to change you.
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Using Our WayBack Machine To Improve
It was, to put it mildly, a high-risk maneuver.
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Trust Me You Don’t Really Need All That Data
He’s skeptical. Most customers don't really need to analyze years of data.
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Forgetting The Past
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
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Its Not The Money, Its What You Know
That turned out to be wrong as the panel’s lone skeptic delights in pointing out. “Look at all the money the Yankees have been spending without much success,”
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Project Management Insights From Detroit’s Bankruptcy
Detroit’s pensions are underfunded by as much as $3.5 billion in part because of unrealistic assumptions of 8 percent annual investment returns. Unrealistic!?
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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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