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It’s a business management problem! Management’s goal should be to figure out a way to facilitate data access. We’ve lost the ability to move quickly. Our approval cycles squash great ideas. We kill with kindness and best intentions.
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August 24, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
Many projects have an S shaped pattern that is our adoption success curve for our effort. Understanding our project adoption and productivity curves will help us ensure our projects are successful.
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August 22, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Sounds just like project management!
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August 18, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The CEO told all their employees to stop using other manufacturers' cell phones and only use the company's phones. It was indefensible, he said, that employees would be seen using, other phones on the job.
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August 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Stop doing something you suspect is unproductive and see if anyone notices says Mary Gorman and Ellen Gottesdiner. I love it!
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August 13, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Especially for complex and costly IT projects, customers need to invest more in the up-front evaluation. Oh, no. Here we go again.
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August 11, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
Myspace went too wide and not deep enough in its product development. We went with a lot of products that were shallow and not the best product in the world. Speed to market was essential.
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August 6, 2011 Bruce Benson
Quality
I face the dilemma: Either be patient and build consensus, or move ahead without the full team’s support. My sense is that it’s time for a change in approach -- time for more personal risk-taking and less conventional wisdom.
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August 3, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Only the knowledge workers know exactly what they are doing and how they are doing it. Because knowledge work is invisible, no one else, including the managers, can understand what the knowledge workers are doing or how they are doing it.
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July 30, 2011 Bruce Benson
Team Management
Oh no, I’ve got a room full of computer "experts." None of them have any training in computer management, but they “know” what needs to be done. We are doomed.
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July 27, 2011 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
The QA Director literally tried to take over management of the project by telling the teams how they should develop the product. This was all done under the guise of quality assurance. It became simply bad project management.
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July 25, 2011 Bruce Benson
Quality
A good budget is often the output of fixing other parts of the project management process such as project planning and schedule estimating.
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July 20, 2011 Bruce Benson
Cost
The FBI Sentinel project had been problem-plagued and had converted over to Agile. The Sentinel project in turn had sprung out of the FBI’s “Virtual Case File” system which was considered a failure. I'm always interested in lessons learned from projects that struggle to be successful.
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July 9, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Success is an amazingly difficult notion to objectively pin down in many projects. While we need to be flexible, I've noted that there is a fine line between flexibility and chaos. Often it is but a single voice that makes all the difference.
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June 27, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
A carefully selected set of practices that match an organization’s needs is better than using one methodology exclusively.
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June 20, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
