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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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July 7, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
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Intensely monitoring healthy individuals could make them less well, not more.
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August 12, 2015 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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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April 8, 2015 Bruce Benson
Planning
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Maybe bureaucracy is actually helping, in this case, to diffuse the impact .... Talk about unintended consequences.
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April 2, 2013 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
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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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March 14, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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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February 7, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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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February 5, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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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January 31, 2013 Bruce Benson
Communication
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It certainly sounds like the problem that needs to be solved, but is it really?
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January 28, 2013 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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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January 24, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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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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January 14, 2013 Bruce Benson
Communication
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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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January 11, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
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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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December 27, 2012 Bruce Benson
Leadership
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Discipline while developing new technology might be different than optimizing current production.
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November 16, 2012 Bruce Benson
Planning
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How we came to better understand our customer's challenges and how it helped us to better help them.
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October 10, 2012 Bruce Benson
Communication
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