Four Project Management Hints That Work
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. Steve Jobs
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Projects Don’t Really Exist?
Projects don’t really exist; they’re a mental model, not an actual thing. We invented projects so that we can talk about a nebulous stream of work as if they were single blocks of time and effort. There are no projects; there are only products. The...
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Nobody Is Healthy, You Just Need To Be Tested More
Intensely monitoring healthy individuals could make them less well, not more.
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Your Project Plan Does Not Describe Our Real Project
What is in the tool and described in the views is an attempt to model a project, but as I said, it is NOT the project.
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Sometimes Bureaucracy And Noise Can Be A Good Thing
Maybe bureaucracy is actually helping, in this case, to diffuse the impact .... Talk about unintended consequences.
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How One CEO Came To A Deep Understanding of His Company
It took him three to four hours a week and left him with an unparalleled understanding of how money was moving out of the company.
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Why Context Is Critical To Making Successful Choices
First off, I mention that we’ve been successful every time at getting organizations to on-time (i.e., within two weeks). Not only were we on time, but the quality of the product was dramatically improved.
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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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Can You Really Spot Over-generalizations?
It certainly sounds like the problem that needs to be solved, but is it really?
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We Probably Already Have All The Information We Need For Success
We need data to improve our performance and the surprising finding is that we generally already have just about all we need.
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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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How To Quickly Give Your Boss An Accurate Estimate
The problem is not a surprise request for a quick estimate. The problem is that we are not prepared to give quick estimates. Here is how we did it.
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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 Know When To Make Things Tougher Or Easier
Discipline while developing new technology might be different than optimizing current production.
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