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This is bad, right? Only about half the tasks scheduled get accomplished in the required week. As a project manager I thought “great, I can work with this!” Huh? Why is that?
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October 31, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
We had the premier project for the organization and we were determined to finally get a product out on-time and with good quality. We did it, and in doing so highlighted how many of our rules were not really helping us to complete a quality project.
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October 28, 2011 Bruce Benson
Quality
Myspace went too wide and not deep enough in its product development. We went with a lot of products that were shallow and not the best product in the world. Speed to market was essential.
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August 6, 2011 Bruce Benson
Quality
Only the knowledge workers know exactly what they are doing and how they are doing it. Because knowledge work is invisible, no one else, including the managers, can understand what the knowledge workers are doing or how they are doing it.
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July 30, 2011 Bruce Benson
Team Management
I kept wondering how we could be world leaders but be so bad at managing our efforts that made us leaders? Something wasn’t quite right in this dichotomy. Maybe, I thought, this is just the cost of being good at what we do -- by failing often.
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May 23, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The software project manager said he needed more people, more money and more time. This brought to mind a great quote I heard many years ago, that went something like "engineering is doing with $1 what any fool can do with $2."
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May 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
There are simple project management tools that allow us to quickly and accurately estimate projects (or tasks) even when we don't have a lot of time to make the estimate nor a lot of details on the effort.
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January 4, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
I spend a lot of time talking about falling back and using simple project management tools when projects are not going as well as expected. Most management, project or otherwise, I always considered pretty simple. Simple doesn't mean easy to do. Often, it is very hard but the right thing to do.
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October 12, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I’ve rarely experienced a project that was on time where anyone complained about it being too costly.
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October 5, 2010 Bruce Benson
Cost
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
Estimating the project is one of the greatest challenges, with or without fancy project management tools, that a manager will face. Here are three areas where we've seen estimates fail and how we've avoided doing the same.
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September 7, 2010 Bruce Benson
Planning
I had a job interview for VP of Development. The interviewing VP with a long history in the industry asked me a simple question: Did I think software development was a repeatable process? I said yes. I won't describe the ensuing discussion except to say I didn't get the job. We didn't even get to talk about project management tools!
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August 23, 2010 Bruce Benson
Planning
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
As a project manager we have our own project and often have to fight to keep resources and schedules running right. So what do we do when that other project manger comes requesting our resources? Do everything we can to help them out.
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August 9, 2010 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
We certainly would not sell off the fairytale Golden Goose to pay for today’s meal. We would find a way to eat today or go hungry and keep the Golden Goose until she laid that next Gold egg. Yet, too often we ignore each project management tool Golden Goose as it comes along.
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July 20, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
