Project Managers How To Adopt The Language Of Your Customer
How we came to better understand our customer's challenges and how it helped us to better help them.
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History Shows Us How To Innovate Successfully
"How did you do that so fast?" I cheated back then, and these kinds of cheats (innovations) still work just fine today.
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Don’t Be Taken for Granted Be Brutally Honest
"Put another way, if you deliver the goods consistently but too quietly, you may find yourself and your organization taken for granted." The SecretCIO.
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Project Managers We Can Get Too Close to The Action And That’s Not Good
"The problem is I’m sitting up in the stands, I’m not down in the driver’s seat where I can do something." Is this really what we want as project managers?
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Project Manager Is The Instant-On War Room Our Solution To Get The Information We Need?
The old IT way was to figure out which reports people wanted and deliver it to them weeks or days later. Here instead are a few ways that actually work.
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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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Project Manager If We Have Too Many Meetings We May Be The Problem
Too many meetings is often a symptom of a bigger problem and won't be solved with ... more meetings.
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Why Project Management Metrics Often Fail and How Yours Can Succeed
How many times have we measured something and it came out to not mean much of anything to anyone? Pay attention to what Mark Zuckerberg is doing.
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Can Your IT Project Manager Sell Better Than Sales?
Technical folks often look more like the customer than the sales and marketing folks I’ve worked with. Let’s take a real world example to add some perspective.
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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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Sometimes When They Say They Want The Project Fast It Is Just Talk
OK, which one is it? You want a lot of changes fast, but when we give them to you, you tell us that we are changing too much too often!
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Why Project Managers Should Not Set Up Metrics To Measure Improvement Efforts
Establish up front how we are going to know if the agile adoption was successful? If we have to do that, we may have other problems to deal with first.
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How To Ask The Right Project Management Question And Get The Right Answer
A somewhat humorous real world example and a few key principles that got us the project management answers we needed and vaulted our projects on to success.
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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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Project Managers Get The Motivation Right!
“I’ve seen your numbers Bruce. But if we don’t ship by next month, we’ll be out of business.” Good motivation, yes? No! Here is instead what worked for us.
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