Planning Is More Important Than The Plan
Your plan will not survive the first encounter with reality. Do I believe that? No, not if I’ve done my homework.
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When Innovating, Go Slow?
The tangled history of innovation reveals a peculiar lesson: Slow is often better than fast ... or maybe not.
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Scope Creep Should Be Mandatory
Project plans that extend past 90 days are as accurate as TV weather predictions?
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How To Avoid Second Order Ignorance
Development is primarily a knowledge discovery activity. But sometimes there are things about the system we don’t know we don't know. However, there is a solution.
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Do 70% Of Your Change Efforts Fail?
Change is hard, but consistently successful changes are very doable. Here is how we did it.
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Why Context Is Critical To Making Successful Choices
First off, I mention that we’ve been successful every time at getting organizations to on-time (i.e., within two weeks). Not only were we on time, but the quality of the product was dramatically improved.
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How To Quickly Give Your Boss An Accurate Estimate
The problem is not a surprise request for a quick estimate. The problem is that we are not prepared to give quick estimates. Here is how we did it.
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Don’t Be Taken for Granted Be Brutally Honest
"Put another way, if you deliver the goods consistently but too quietly, you may find yourself and your organization taken for granted." The SecretCIO.
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If Our Project Management Crisis Is Obvious To Everyone Then It Is Too Late To Fix It
Denial was no longer a managerial option. It was a bit scary, but at the end of the day we executed on the plan. We delivered on what we said we should do.
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How To Avoid The Slow Death Of Responsibility For Project Management Results
Is our project management organization in a place where it makes decisions that leaves us wondering "what were we thinking?"
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Is Our Project’s Cost Overrun Really Just A Schedule Problem?
Our project costs are out of control, so why are we talking about fixing the schedule first?
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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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How to Gracefully Degrade Your Project Management in a Crisis
It is going to happen. A crisis will ensue, and all that good management stuff we do, some of it will have to go out the window. Huh? Shouldn’t we always do everything right, all the time?
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Why Project Management Dilbert Style Works
It is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.
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Maybe We Should Ignore Our Boss
At such an inauspicious moment, with management dead set against the idea, it surely would have seemed foolhardy to continue designing computer operating systems.
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