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The other thing that I love looking at is how much time am I spending in meetings vs. what I would call focused time. You absolutely need to be in meetings, because, after all, you don’t do a CEO’s job by locking yourself in your...
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September 21, 2016 Bruce Benson
Communication
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Everything looks exceedingly complicated. Srouji won’t discuss costs, but Apple’s research and development expenses hit $8.1 billion last year, up from $6 billion in 2014 and $4.5 billion in 2013. Many analysts attribute the rise in large part to chip development. All Srouji will say...
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May 26, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
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In software development, project planning is often viewed as a definitive prediction that charts the future of the project, rather like laying down track for a railroad. If the plan is “good” the project will follow it unerringly like a train on rails. … This...
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April 8, 2015 Bruce Benson
Planning
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The past is about blame and punishment. The present about belonging, about bonding or separating.
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November 6, 2014 Bruce Benson
Planning
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He’s skeptical. Most customers don't really need to analyze years of data.
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October 30, 2014 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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The lawsuit filed against Oracle by the Attorney General of Oregon is a desperate attempt to deflect blame for their failures to manage a complex IT project.
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August 28, 2014 Bruce Benson
Tracking
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
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August 7, 2014 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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Too many organizations just do it backwards.
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October 1, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
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Even when teams achieve high accuracy for actuals versus planned, there is no good way of leveraging that data to improve the estimation process? Not so fast.
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September 18, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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What we too often do is based upon what we’ve done in the past even if what we’ve done in the past has us regularly delivering our projects months late.
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September 3, 2013 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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Sam Walton, the founder of Walmart, was constantly visiting competitor’s stores to see what they were doing. This same idea can help our projects be successful.
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August 30, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
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The VP went ballistic when I reported that it took us one minute on average to review each product defect. She simply did not like working with facts.
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August 26, 2013 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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If we believe real hard we certainly should be able to reduce our time by 33%! Maybe, but not by going for it all at once. Here is how we did it.
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August 23, 2013 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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The business manager spoke up in an incredible and disbelieving voice “you are planning to fail?!” Yes, and it became our most successful project to date.
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August 13, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
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Bringing in the big outside guns only ensure that someone will get shot. They just make a mess that you have to clean up yourself. Here is what worked for us.
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July 8, 2013 Bruce Benson
Staffing
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