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In speaking with project managers, methodology masters and tool providers, it seems the key to successful technology adoption is to change the corporate culture.
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January 5, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Risk Management
Projects that consistently complete on time? Gee, we can’t do that. No way ... What? We can?
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January 3, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
"I’m always on the lookout for ideas concerning software estimation, even as I ponder my own eternal mantra: Estimates are always wrong." Not!
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December 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
My boss told me my job was to drive down the roughly 500 defects on our current project so we can ship it. I also noticed another 500 issues in the database that were tagged as "work to be done." My boss said to ignore them.
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December 14, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
Now that we are getting close to the project launch, we start to get "help." We get VPs showing up. What is this all about? How can they afford to do this?
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December 12, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
It was a simple bug, or so we thought. They said it was a NEW requirement and it needed approval because we undermine the project by adding new requirements!
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December 8, 2011 Bruce Benson
Management
"We’re human, we can’t write perfect software." I knew from just hearing this that we could fix their problems. How is that possible from just these words?
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December 2, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I got into management because that was where the problems were. This would be simple, I thought, get the management right and then we could get the job done right. Boy, was I delusional.
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November 30, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
I loved the book Moneyball. It highlighted how we do too much based on habit and custom and not always on hard data about what actually works.
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November 28, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Some key project metrics not only provide tactical insight into how a project is going, they can also provide an overall strategic view not found elsewhere. Here are three we've used successfully.
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November 21, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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The commercial world is all about making money. Yet successful companies often have a noble mission beyond just making money that helps drive their success.
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November 18, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Consider finding innovative ways, like teaching your daughters to play wargames, to motivate people to do or learn useful project skills.
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November 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Training
We all love it when we have project staff who work around the clock. Makes life easier, doesn’t it? I’m not so sure.
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November 14, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Ways we try to help but actually undermine the project. As a senior manager, try to avoid these. As the project manager, try and manage around them if we can not get relief otherwise.
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November 10, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Some organizations don't seem to have effective leadership. But this can be an opportunity for the project manager to take some needed initiatives. Here is how we did it.
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November 4, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
