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The problem was that we never knew where to start or what to work on first. This was the source of many arguments and many stops and starts in improvement projects. Now, we knew.
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September 2, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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August 22, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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August 9, 2011 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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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August 6, 2011 Bruce Benson
Quality
I use to travel, a lot. The worst part about travelling was the loss of time. Yes, I could try to work on the plane but it was never very efficient. Inevitably, a lot of the time in travel was just dead time. Boy, did that turn out to be productive!
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June 11, 2011 Bruce Benson
Time Management
Fortunately for the company, one developer had been building this exact piece of software for over a year.
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November 9, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Studies have found that creative solutions to problems actually decrease under external pressure such as deadlines.
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September 16, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
It only takes one key item to make a day successful. Often for me it is a well written e-mail that outlines a problem and drives a set of actions. As busy as the rest of the day may be, this one item makes the day a success and often, if it was insightful enough, makes days or weeks successful.
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August 31, 2010 Bruce Benson
Time Management
That’s the ticket. Let’s get a great project management tool that will help us get everything done faster. We’ll complete all our projects quicker and finally deliver more of them on time! Not so fast young Jedi apprentice ....
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August 17, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Benson's Bylaw: People will work at a quality deficit if given insufficient time.
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May 24, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
Figuring out the difference between the official project management plan and the actual plan people are carrying out provides deep insights into how your organization is performing. Discovering this difference often provides a launching pad for rapidly aligning and improving your organization's productivity and on time delivery of products and services.
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March 15, 2010 Bruce Benson
Planning
Not all improvements require a fancy new development methodology or project management tool. Removing existing cultural and management inhibitors, while often not easy, can vault your team or organization to the next level of performance.
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December 7, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
IEEE Spectrum ran an article on "Infoglut" in October 2009. The article was light on specific techniques to manage "Infoglut", so here are five related to e-mail that I've found useful for the project manager, or any manager for that matter.
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November 20, 2009 Bruce Benson
Time Management
As quality went up, our productivity skyrocketed.
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October 19, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Improving team performance is as much about attitude as it is about using specific project management techniques to improve quality. Here, "It Should Work The First Time" caught the imagination of the staff and became a cultural and performance changing philosophy
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October 13, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
