Project Manager Is It Really A Crisis?
My boss appeared confused with my position. “No, no” he says “we have to get those panics down. Push them to focus first on the panics!”
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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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Use Bad Situations To Make Good Project Management Changes
Problems are often opportunities in disguise. Here, a high turnover of staff was turned into a force for project management change and improvement.
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The One Great But Often Overlooked Project Management Improvement Technique
I simply said “hey, I got a great idea, let’s do X!” Everyone got excited and we finally had an effective technique. Where did I find this new technique?
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Do We Manage Projects By Intuition or by Methodology?
What happens if we are not using a method? What do we call it then? I call it management by intuition. Others call it management by experience. Does this work?
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This Is Your Number One Priority
Security is our number one priority. Except for quality which is our number one priority, right along with speed to market which is our number one priority. So, what is a good project manager to do?
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Project Managers Quit Talking Jargon To Our Customers
Project management is often about learning to communicate in another language. I’m not talking about a national language, but instead the language of the industry or domain that we are working in.
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Being Chaotic Is Often Smart In Project Managing Innovation
“More and more,” Carlson says, “innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly and dumb. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.”
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How To Keep Your Project Management On The Cutting Edge
Too many perfectly good methodologies and techniques have regressed over time because we didn’t make wise choices in trying to perfect them.
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We Know Everything We Need To Know To Be Successful Project Managers
We know everything we need to know (or at least enough), and if we just apply it, we will be successful, even without fancy new project management tools.
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Project Management And Innovation Can Work Against Each Other
Over-managing the innovation process can undermine its effectiveness.
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Why Change Management Oriented Projects Are Hard and How To Succeed Anyway
Many projects have an S shaped pattern that is our adoption success curve for our effort. Understanding our project adoption and productivity curves will help us ensure our projects are successful.
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Project Management Choose Quality or Speed?
Myspace went too wide and not deep enough in its product development. We went with a lot of products that were shallow and not the best product in the world. Speed to market was essential.
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How To Project Manage People Who Are Smarter Than You
Only the knowledge workers know exactly what they are doing and how they are doing it. Because knowledge work is invisible, no one else, including the managers, can understand what the knowledge workers are doing or how they are doing it.
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Get The Project Budget Right!
A good budget is often the output of fixing other parts of the project management process such as project planning and schedule estimating.
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