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I am a big advocate of getting the project management tool schedule right for a project. While this seems obvious, 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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October 26, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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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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September 21, 2010 Bruce Benson
Team Management
Studies have found that creative solutions to problems actually decrease under external pressure such as deadlines.
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September 16, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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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August 17, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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We know that throwing additional resources at an already late project rarely makes it run on time. Often, it only makes it run later. Similarly, going with an aggressive schedule with an early date for the purpose of actually hitting a later date is equally counterproductive.
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May 24, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
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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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April 26, 2010 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
As quality went up, our productivity skyrocketed.
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October 19, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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October 13, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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October 11, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
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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October 4, 2009 Bruce Benson
Testing
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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September 24, 2009 Bruce Benson
Testing
Sometimes we just need to bring order to one key project process to stabilize and enhance the overall project.
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August 25, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
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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August 20, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Team Management
