Are We Just Duplicating Our Problems?
Those darn quality testers kept reporting the same issues, over and over again. This duplicate defect reporting was causing more issues than it was fixing!
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Needing A Personal Commitment Is A Bad Sign
The manager told me his team would accomplish the task in six weeks. I told him that he needed more time. He was flabbergasted.
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Why We Should Focus On The Not So Obvious
It is often too easy to focus on the obvious stuff and not on what it is we really need to be doing.
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Sometimes When They Say They Want The Project Fast It Is Just Talk
OK, which one is it? You want a lot of changes fast, but when we give them to you, you tell us that we are changing too much too often!
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Why Project Managers Should Not Set Up Metrics To Measure Improvement Efforts
Establish up front how we are going to know if the agile adoption was successful? If we have to do that, we may have other problems to deal with first.
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How To Ask The Right Project Management Question And Get The Right Answer
A somewhat humorous real world example and a few key principles that got us the project management answers we needed and vaulted our projects on to success.
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Project Managers Get The Motivation Right!
“I’ve seen your numbers Bruce. But if we don’t ship by next month, we’ll be out of business.” Good motivation, yes? No! Here is instead what worked for us.
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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?
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Project Manager It Is Ok To Charge A Customer For Our Services!
This is obvious, yes? If we do work for a customer, we charge them for it. Ok, so the customer would rather get work done for free. It helps their bottom line after all, doesn’t it? Maybe not.
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We Know Everything We Need To Know To Be Successful Project Managers
We know everything we need to know (or at least enough), and if we just apply it, we will be successful, even without fancy new project management tools.
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The Right Project Management But The Wrong Project?
The problem was that we never knew where to start or what to work on first. This was the source of many arguments and many stops and starts in improvement projects. Now, we knew.
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How To Avoid Optional Chaos In Your Project
The enormous increase in effort with very short schedules is due in large part to the work on the project morphing into wasteful activity called "optional chaos."
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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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The Project Management Secret Of Innovation
Fortunately for the company, one developer had been building this exact piece of software for over a year.
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It Must Be Something Other Than The Project Management Schedule
The notion that an inadequate project management schedule is often the root cause of other problems in the project generated some insightful responses. While insightful, they also illustrate what I consider to be the typical misconceptions we have about how project problems are just too complex to ever be "simply the schedule."
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