Why We Should Plan To Fail
The business manager spoke up in an incredible and disbelieving voice “you are planning to fail?!” Yes, and it became our most successful project to date.
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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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Got Big Data? Free It For The Greatest Results
An warning message from a satellite 1.5 million kilometers in space that gets processed within seconds then waits for someone to type it into an email. Why?
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Problems? Look Towards Your Best People As The Root Cause
It’s not always the bad guys, doing bad things that cause problems. It’s often your best employees making silly mistakes.
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When To Rethink What We Think We Already Know
She didn’t know why or for what specific reason she was taking these pills. She hadn't asked.
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It Sure Sounds Like The Solution To Our Problems
We have all these problems and look here is another tool that says it will fix everything. The tool that finally did fix all our problems was much simpler.
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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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Why We Should Focus On The Not So Obvious
It is often too easy to focus on the obvious stuff and not on what it is we really need to be doing.
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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 Vision Right!
There is no one who knows what all needs to happen. Is the solution to let the decisions be made where they’re executed, and maybe communicated upwards?
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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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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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Rooting Out And Removing The Causes Of Project Management Bad Habits
It was a simple bug, or so we thought. They said it was a NEW requirement and it needed approval because we undermine the project by adding new requirements!
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What Project Management Can Learn From Medical Weight Loss Management
Lack of sufficient sleep may compromise the efficacy of typical dietary interventions for weight loss and related metabolic risk reduction. What does this have to do with project management? Everything!
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How To Avoid Optional Chaos In Your Project
The enormous increase in effort with very short schedules is due in large part to the work on the project morphing into wasteful activity called "optional chaos."
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