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The simple message is almost always just a useful abstraction of a fuller methodology that needs to be understood.
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November 7, 2018 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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What had worked for us? Velocity, or better stated, the methodology behind velocity, the average. It always drove people crazy that I'd use averages on my projects.
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September 28, 2018 Bruce Benson
Metrics
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The trick here is to learn as we go.
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September 18, 2014 Bruce Benson
Training
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Success can be a very bad thing and only perpetuate bad practices, until they finally eat out the soul of the company.
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May 6, 2014 Bruce Benson
Process Improvement
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Project plans that extend past 90 days are as accurate as TV weather predictions?
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July 5, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning, Requirements Management
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We have all these problems and look here is another tool that says it will fix everything. The tool that finally did fix all our problems was much simpler.
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March 12, 2013 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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To put it bluntly, being an expert can be highly overrated.
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July 6, 2012 Bruce Benson
Training
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Yet study after study, analyst after analyst, say that developers are making the same mistakes they made in 2000. That they made in 1990. And earlier.
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January 19, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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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
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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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Agile. That's it. Agile. The perfect project management tool or methodology. You can use it in general project management. You can use it in software project management. Don't Google it as you will get confusing things like Agile project management and Scrum. You just want to be agile. Look it up in the dictionary. That is a much better source for the methodology.
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May 17, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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