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Project Management Tools And Why Being Highly Customizable Can Be A Bad Thing

If a tool’s power is touted as its customizability then we might want to look closely at the total cost of deploying such a project management tool.

March 26, 2012 Bruce Benson Change Management

Project Managers – Now Is The Time!

What is good for the entrepreneur is equally good for the project manager in an established company.

March 20, 2012 Bruce Benson Planning

Project Manager Don’t Ring That Bell For The Wrong Reason

Taking a great idea, like a dinner bell or a project meeting, and overloading it with unrelated activities can kill an otherwise great project management tool.

March 12, 2012 Bruce Benson Communication

Successful Project Management Is As Easy As Safely Flying A Plane

It’s been a decade since passengers have died in the crash of an airliner carrying more than 100 people. Its a dramatic turnaround. How did they do it?

March 7, 2012 Bruce Benson Process Improvement

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?

March 5, 2012 Bruce Benson Process Improvement 4 Comments

Project Manager Is It Really A Crisis?

My boss appeared confused with my position. “No, no” he says “we have to get those panics down. Push them to focus first on the panics!”

February 28, 2012 Bruce Benson Risk Management

Project Managers Are We Managing Or Are We Theorizing?

It was a great theory, that our project slowdown was due to having only the most difficult defects remaining, but was that really the case?

February 23, 2012 Bruce Benson Metrics

Why Project Management Dilbert Style Works

The Dilbert Comic strip is a great example of how to bring about change. Instead, it is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.

February 21, 2012 Bruce Benson Change Management

Project Managers Are You Managing Or Are You Experimenting?

Project Managers Managing Or Experimenting

Are we managing projects or are we conducting experiments? Managing you say? Are you really sure?

February 8, 2012 Bruce Benson Management

The One Great But Often Overlooked Project Management Improvement Technique

I simply said “hey, I got a great idea, let’s do X!” Everyone got excited and we finally had an effective technique. Where did I find this new technique?

January 30, 2012 Bruce Benson Change Management

Maybe We Should Ignore Our Boss

At such an inauspicious moment, with management dead set against the idea, it surely would have seemed foolhardy to continue designing computer operating systems.

January 23, 2012 Bruce Benson Change Management

Project Managers, How To Stop Making The Same Old Mistakes

Yet study after study, analyst after analyst, say that developers are making the same mistakes they made in 2000. That they made in 1990. And earlier.

January 19, 2012 Bruce Benson Change Management

Project Managers Follow The Crowd As Your Last Resort

Should we simply follow the crowd until we found something that suggests another course of action?

January 17, 2012 Bruce Benson Planning

Do We Manage Projects By Intuition or by Methodology?

What happens if we are not using a method? What do we call it then? I call it management by intuition. Others call it management by experience. Does this work?

January 11, 2012 Bruce Benson Process Improvement

Two Steps to Getting Truly Useful Project Management Metrics

One of the hard steps in getting to truly useful project management metrics is to get to a point where the metric tells us something useful and we believe it.

January 9, 2012 Bruce Benson Metrics

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