Global Project Management? Further Away Can Be Better!
If we want a successful project, we may want to develop it remotely, so it is away from the chaos of the main office.
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Meeting Madness? Don’t Do it!
All I had to do was to get about 500 software defects fixed, according to my project management tools. My boss told me I had to have daily meetings with everyone concerned to get this done. This meeting centric approach to managing this project turned out to be utter madness. Simple measurements, that anyone can do, demonstrated that these meetings had no discernible impact.
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Avoid This Project Management Schedule vs Requirements Trade-Off Trap!
Your development team is telling you it will take 24 weeks to do product development. You only have 20 weeks to your product launch window. After that, the product won't be competitive. What does a good project manager do?
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Knowing Your Project Management Average Is Powerful!
A simple project management tool, such as computing an average, can transform a project from chaotic and out of control to suddenly predictable and manageable. Here are some simple averages that made a huge difference in our management of large and complex projects.
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Defect Reports Are Your Best Friend!
This post is adapted from an e-mail I had sent to a CEO who was looking for project management tools to help deliver his products when promised. In the past his organization had successfully been able to know precisely where their product readiness stood. Trending defects will work well in managing projects of all types.
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Get The Project Management Schedule Right!
Estimating a schedule is one of the most critical things we will do so let's see if we can get it right.
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If Nothing Else, Honesty Is Just More Efficient
Honesty in project management reporting is just more efficient. Just report the status of a project as it is. If things are late, it will show things as late. If things are confused, it will show things as confused. Spending valuable time making things look better on slides than it does in reality is not productive.
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