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Lessons We’ll Learn From The Failed Oregon Healthcare Website
The lawsuit filed against Oracle by the Attorney General of Oregon is a desperate attempt to deflect blame for their failures to manage a complex IT project.
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Project Managing By Throwing Away The Book
We've been successful at throwing away the book, but in general the book has too many good ideas we need to retain and use.
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Why We Need to Regularly Challenge Our Assumptions
I always thought I wanted to be an electrical engineer. A college alum interview made me confront my assumptions and it changed my direction in life.
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How To Fix Why Our Good Ideas Don’t Get Adopted
We are idea rich, selection baffled, and adoption poor.
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How To Respond Before It Is Too Late
There it was up on the screen. The list of competitors for our products One, over in the corner of the slide, was called the iPhone.
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Project Management Lessons From Obamacare
Sometimes, we just have to change the system to see how things will really work.
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The Role Of Luck And Skill In Our Success
If you’ve done that and you get a bad outcome in the short term, pick yourself up and go back at it the next day because over time it will lead to success.
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Good Results Will Inevitably Degrade With Time Unless We Act To Prevent It
The effectiveness of techniques will fade in and fade out systematically, based upon no rational logic except that this is what happens with people using tools and methods.
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Minutes Matter And How To Avoid Screwing Up Our Productivity
If you just add five minutes per patient then you have just hit me with a 20 to 30 percent productivity loss!
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Why “Let’s try this” Is Not A Metrics Plan
Measure interruptions to people’s work so we know how much we interfere with their concentration? This will also interrupt the person we are trying to help!
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One Way Not To Undervalue Yourself
Getting free rein over our work schedules helps improve our productivity. Just don't give that improvement away for free.
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Four Steps To Not Wasting Our Great Opportunities
Scrum emerged as the winner among the agile methodologies. But in some cases, managers kept the developers out of the loop and the opportunity was wasted.
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Be The Right Kind Of Expert
In a moment of decisiveness ... I was transformed. By making that fateful decision, I put myself in a place where I finally developed the right expertise.
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Duh! Just Match Our Promises To Our Capability
Too many organizations just do it backwards.
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