A Few Will Do
I just wanted to develop a rocket with a small team, and not 15,000 people like had been done in the past. I wanted to show you could do this with 200.
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Not A HIT
The healthcare industry may be experiencing an ongoing productivity paradox, mirroring earlier patterns in manufacturing and other industrial sectors.
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Clean Out The Queep
The Air Force has revoked more than 226 Air Force instructions deemed unnecessary or outdated over the past year as part of its ongoing effort to get rid of so-called “queep.”
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Committees Producing Deep Wisdom
If one assumes that randomness constitutes deep wisdom.
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Delaying Projects — Lessons Learned From Electronic Arts
Two years ago, Electronic Arts, the second-largest U.S. video game company, ran on promises. … Several of EA’s biggest 2013 releases, including entries in its SimCity and Battlefield franchises, were so bug-ridden on release that they crashed game servers and were essentially unplayable for days...
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Quality Must Also Be Agile
We had all but eliminated the need for our test teams.
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Forgetting The Past
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
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Did The Tech Giants Botch Obamacare?
Still, he says, the contractors are huge companies familiar with complexity, and in most cases they’ve had years to address the sites’ problems.
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How To Get That Lucky Golden Touch
My wife said I was just lucky. Lucky? I’ve been doing this stuff for over 20 years!
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Can We Really Just Ignore The Small Stuff?
In the worst case I figured, I could always change them back to what they were. So I “fixed” them. Disaster?
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How To Make Our Management Blunder Proof
I had pulled the wrong data in updating my status. It looked like a huge mistake in my data and it put me into a cold sweat. I was doomed.
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An Easy Fix To Some Of Our Biggest Problems
Development's management regularly chastised the project testing team for its poor performance and said that this was hampering development’s productivity.
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How To Escape The Project Estimation Time Trap
Even when teams achieve high accuracy for actuals versus planned, there is no good way of leveraging that data to improve the estimation process? Not so fast.
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Your Lack Of Success Is Nothing More Than A Bad Habit
What we too often do is based upon what we’ve done in the past even if what we’ve done in the past has us regularly delivering our projects months late.
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How To Stay A Step Ahead By Not Trying Real Hard
If we believe really hard, we certainly should be able to reduce our time by 33%! Maybe, but not by going for it all at once. Here is how we did it.
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