It’s The Project Management Schedule, Stupid
What is not often as obvious is that a lot of the problems seen in a project can often be root caused back to an inadequate schedule estimate.
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Self-Managing Teams In Project Management? Is That Possible?
The project manager needs to control and direct her team with the help of her project management tools. The notion of a self-managing team seems to undermine the ability of the project manager to control and direct. What is really going on here?
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Compressed Project Management Schedules Discourage Innovation and Improvement
Studies have found that creative solutions to problems actually decrease under external pressure such as deadlines.
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Improving Project Management Productivity Does Not Save Time
That’s the ticket. Let’s get a great project management tool that will help us get everything done faster. We’ll complete all our projects quicker and finally deliver more of them on time! Not so fast young Jedi apprentice ....
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In Project Management 9+3 Is Not Equal To 12
Benson's Bylaw: People will work at a quality deficit if given insufficient time.
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One Way To Make Your Project Risk Free?
We all seem to know that throwing people at a late project may only make the project later. Yet, we all too often still do it for a variety of reasons including as a way to manage risk in a project. Having your best people ready to jump in and solve problems appears to be a smart strategy, but is it really?
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Focusing On High Quality Gives You High Productivity At No Extra Cost
As quality went up, our productivity skyrocketed.
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It Should Work The First Time
Improving team performance is as much about attitude as it is about using specific project management techniques to improve quality. Here, "It Should Work The First Time" caught the imagination of the staff and became a cultural and performance changing philosophy
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Getting The Schedule Right Is Hard! But Not For The Obvious Reasons.
Making a real change is rarely easy. A real change, one that goes to the heart of a fundamental problem, is usually very difficult, but doable.
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The Busiest Project Test Organization Was Also The Best
A busy project test organization can mean your products are having problems. In this case however, the fact they were very busy helped the test organization to stay objective about reporting dramatically improved test results without missing a beat. Other test teams described in this series of articles reacted in inefficient ways when product quality improved dramatically.
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Want To Stress Your Project Test Team? Give Them Good Quality!
Your test organization will often provide the first indicator that you’ve improved how you do business. How this shows up however, might be rather different than you would expect. Test organizations do not always handle it well when quality improves.
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Are You Managing the Critical Project Thread?
Sometimes we just need to bring order to one key project process to stabilize and enhance the overall project.
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Want Project Quality? Use the “B” Team
You have a big project. Critical to the company. So you put your best people on it. The "A" team. Funny, you always seem to get the same results. If your company is not doing well, your "A" team still results in you not doing well. Often, I attribute this kind of consistent pattern to a cultural or major organizational issue that needs to be resolved.
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