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If It Won’t Work With Your Team It Won’t Work With An Outsourced Team
Bringing in the big outside guns only ensure that someone will get shot. They just make a mess that you have to clean up yourself. Here is what worked for us.
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Scope Creep Should Be Mandatory
Project plans that extend past 90 days are as accurate as TV weather predictions?
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Practicing To Fail In Order To Succeed Big
"You need to have more ‘gotcha’ fees, that’s how airlines make their money." Maybe Dogbert was on to something?
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Yes I Know It Seems So Reasonable And Yes Everyone Does It
The COO said we had to guarantee that all future deliveries would be just as successful. I told her she couldn’t afford such a guarantee. She was not happy,
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We Are Still Doomed To Repeat Our Problems If We Ignore Our Past Data
I could now readily see how we consistently repeated the same problems on each projects. This is how we got the data we needed.
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Are We Always Connected But Always Distracted?
Being always connected to our work and project often means we are constantly distracted. It doesn't have to be this way. This is what worked for us.
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Some Scary Things Are Worth Sharing
When [Ford’s Scott] Monty was planning what became the Summer of Taurus campaign … he wrote a rough outline of what he wanted and posted it to Yammer. Within a week, a person from an IT group that normally didn’t work with marketing was able...
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For Lasting Success Find A Higher Purpose
Money, promotions and recognition are fine motivators but it won’t last or it will be empty unless we contribute to more than just our own well being.
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How To Avoid The Slow Death Of Responsibility For Project Management Results
Is our project management organization in a place where it makes decisions that leaves us wondering "what were we thinking?"
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Project Manager If We Have Too Many Meetings We May Be The Problem
Too many meetings is often a symptom of a bigger problem and won't be solved with ... more meetings.
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Is Our Project’s Cost Overrun Really Just A Schedule Problem?
Our project costs are out of control, so why are we talking about fixing the schedule first?
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Why We Can Never Make Just One Change As A Project Manager
Purchase this Project Management Tool and you will never deliver a project late again! Maybe, but only if we first change just a few more things.
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Project Managers Get The Motivation Right!
“I’ve seen your numbers Bruce. But if we don’t ship by next month, we’ll be out of business.” Good motivation, yes? No! Here is instead what worked for us.
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How to Gracefully Degrade Your Project Management in a Crisis
It is going to happen. A crisis will ensue, and all that good management stuff we do, some of it will have to go out the window. Huh? Shouldn’t we always do everything right, all the time?
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