Is Your Project Management Pragmatic or Zealous?
A carefully selected set of practices that match an organization’s needs is better than using one methodology exclusively.
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In Project Management We Are Only Good At What We Spend Our Time On
I just spent the weekend at Odyssey of the Mind World Finals watching a lot of real smart and very creative kids show their solutions to various creative problems. It reminded me that they were good not only because they were smart and talented, but because they spent their time, with a passion, doing this kind of stuff.
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Project Management Success by Failing Often
I kept wondering how we could be world leaders but be so bad at managing our efforts that made us leaders? Something wasn’t quite right in this dichotomy. Maybe, I thought, this is just the cost of being good at what we do -- by failing often.
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Is it Our Project Management Or Our Strategy That Is Not Working?
“Our strategy is sound. It is aspects of our operational execution that are not.” Boy, how often have I heard that.
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Project Management Helps Us In Everyday Life Too
Déjà vu. I’m doing nothing more than helping out as my father-in-law is recovering from having gone to the hospital. All the chaos and concern seemed very familiar in an eerie way ... kind of like … an out of control project!
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How Mentoring Can Be An Effective Project Management Tool
My best mentors helped me figure out how to do my job better by giving me information and insight, and not by yelling at me to work harder or to stop bringing up all my crazy project management tool ideas!
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Is It Really OK For Your Project To Fail?
Would you tell your project team that it is OK to not get the product working because real-life experience is that sometimes things don’t work out?
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Manage Your Projects By Example To Improve Performance
In trying to get a handle on improving product performance, we discovered that simple examples were more effective as project management tools than were complex charts and spreadsheets.
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Boycotting Meetings As A Project Management Tool
Meetings are seen as either the way we manage projects or the bane of efficient project management. Can boycotting meetings really help us straighten this mess out?
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Do You Manage Your Project Team By Data Or By Direction?
Project managers can see from a kid's morning routine why using data instead of direction can often be a better tool for getting the results we want.
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Five Reasons Managing Projects Objectively Is Hard And How To Succeed Anyway
I'm a great advocate of managing using objective, data driven, project management tools. I often call it being "brutally honest" but with the insight it is only "brutal" to organizations that have locked themselves into other than objective approaches. Here are five reasons why being objective is hard, and ways we successfully overcame these barriers.
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Is Your Project Schedule Really Driven By Your Requirements?
Sometimes it is the team process and not the project requirements that determines a project's schedule.
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How Not To Lose Our Way When Projects Go Bad
Make sure we know what it is we do well, and what we don't do well, so we don't discard our best practices when scrambling to stay afloat.
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Project Managers – Double Check Your Temperature!
We have a temperature sensor that sits outside our bedroom window. My wife says it can't be correct. Why? Because it is up next to the house and the house will warm it. She says the local news temperature report is better. Who is correct?
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How To Get The Project Management Data We Need
Know the history of how our organization has performed in the past.
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